From: Phil Goetz (goetz@zoesis.com)
Date: Fri Nov 20 1998 - 16:57:18 MST
> You are correct on the first point, Phil, the nucleus is transferred from
> the infertile egg into the fertile egg, meaning that the cytoplasm of the
> healthy egg surrounds the infertile nucleus and revitalizes it. (I've got
> to stop typing posts when I'm tired, it leads to dyslexic errors like this
> one.) Ethical objections to this procedure center on the issue of how much
> mitochondrial DNA gets transferred and possibly mutates, leading to birth
> defects.
>
> Thank you for catching that!
>
> Kathryn Aegis
What about the fact that the original infertility may be genetic?
Now, thanks to science, you can hand infertility down to your children.
Phil
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