New laws to create cloned babies

November 18, 2007

British couples could soon be able to have babies created using DNA from two women and a man as part of a revolutionary human cloning technique. Controversial legislation due to be debated by politicians this week sets out ways to allow test-tube babies to be created from the biological material from three parents. The laws would allow an embryo to be created from the nucleus of one woman’s egg, her partner’s sperm and another woman’s mitochondria, the material surrounding an egg’s nucleus and which promotes cell growth. (The Sydney Morning Herald)