2017.01.20 18:20
2017.01.20 18:31
2017.01.21 00:21
2017.01.21 00:59
2017.01.21 01:32
One may say this is the first step forward towards making a " designer's baby."
Certainly another important milestone in medical science, which
relentlessly has been advancing in all fronts to demystify the secrets of life.
And yet,
"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance.
As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."
---- John Archivald Wheeler
"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense,
for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations.
Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects."
Nikola Tesla
2017.01.21 02:09
Mind-boggling genetic studies impossible for me to keep up with.
The pace of development in the medical fields seems accelerating as days go by.
Just amazing!
2017.01.21 04:54
I agree with you, 선배님,
Yet I love to challenge and stimulate my brain in the field
that I chose as a young man for many reasons, one of which
is to exercise the old brain, another of which is to convince myself
"I do not know anything."(which was the teaching by Socrates)
Mitochondrial replacement (MRT, sometimes called mitochondrial donation or three parent IVF) is a special form of in vitro fertilisation in which the future baby's mitochondrial DNA comes from a third party. This technique is used in cases when mothers carry genes for mitochondrial diseases. The two most common techniques in mitochondrial donation are pronuclear transfer and maternal spindle transfer.
In 2015 MRT was made legal in the United Kingdom[1] and in 2016 the first regulations were issued there, clearing the way for procedures to begin.[2] In February 2016, the US National Academy of Sciences issued a report describing technologies then current and the surrounding ethical issues.[3](from Internet)