God didn't design for 3-parent babies.....
That procedure replaces defective mitochondria, the energy-generating organelles in cells, with healthy ones. But even a tiny amount of defective mitochondria may replicate and take over the cell, researchers report online May 19 in Cell Stem Cell. Exactly which mitochondria can stage a
comeback and when is unpredictable, say stem cell biologist Dieter Egli of the New York Stem Cell Foundation and colleagues.
In most cases, carrying over a little bit of mitochondria was not a problem. But in a small number of cases, mitochondria could balloon from less than 1 percent to become the only type of mitochondria in the cell. One lineage of cells contained 1.3 percent of a particular mitochondrial DNA variety, called the H1 haplotype, at the beginning. After 36 rounds of growth in lab dishes, the H1 mitochondria made up 53.2 percent of the mitochondrial population. But after 59 rounds of growth, they had dwindled again to 1 percent. Individual cells removed from the dish at various time points and grown as clones in separate dishes contained between 0 and 90 percent H1 mitochondria. Those and other instances of shifting mitochondria happened at random." ScienceNews
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
"A new study sounds a cautionary note for a controversial procedure used in creating “three-parent babies.”That procedure replaces defective mitochondria, the energy-generating organelles in cells, with healthy ones. But even a tiny amount of defective mitochondria may replicate and take over the cell, researchers report online May 19 in Cell Stem Cell. Exactly which mitochondria can stage a
In most cases, carrying over a little bit of mitochondria was not a problem. But in a small number of cases, mitochondria could balloon from less than 1 percent to become the only type of mitochondria in the cell. One lineage of cells contained 1.3 percent of a particular mitochondrial DNA variety, called the H1 haplotype, at the beginning. After 36 rounds of growth in lab dishes, the H1 mitochondria made up 53.2 percent of the mitochondrial population. But after 59 rounds of growth, they had dwindled again to 1 percent. Individual cells removed from the dish at various time points and grown as clones in separate dishes contained between 0 and 90 percent H1 mitochondria. Those and other instances of shifting mitochondria happened at random." ScienceNews
