http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...bies-born.html

So far, two of the babies have been
tested and have been found to contain
genes from three 'parents'.
Fifteen of the children were born in the
past three years as a result of one
experimental programme at the Institute
for Reproductive Medicine and Science of
St Barnabas in New Jersey.
The babies were born to women who had
problems conceiving. Extra genes from a
female donor were inserted into their
eggs before they were fertilised in an
attempt to enable them to conceive.
Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-
year- old children confirm that they have
inherited DNA from three adults --two
women and one man.
The fact that the children have inherited
the extra genes and incorporated them
into their 'germline' means that they will,
in turn, be able to pass them on to their
own offspring.

Epic.

This is one of the positives about genetic alteration. I hope it stays this way, I'm thinking of Brave New World worst case scenario

Three parents. Wow.

Not the possibility for threesome buddies to settle down and have a baby together.

I'm worried about what chromosomal abnormalities could possibly occur with an extra set of genes in there when it's not meant to be though

GATTACA soon tbh

Woah

This is kind of scary, and exciting? What if there's gene combinations that can offset certain diseases?

But then of course this gets into rich parents wanting gene modified babies to formulate the 'perfect' child...

I find this stuff so fascinating.

so if a lesbian, gay, and bisexual person create a baby. What would happen?

Wow

Me too, especially when these babies have their own children one day.

If a gay and lesbian REALLY wanted to know the answer to that, they could join forces just to create a baby for ***** and giggles. But morally nobody cares to put that much effort into finding out the answer.

Rihanna,Karrueche&Chris should get into this

I'm interested in how this child will turn out.

Yess

People have actually already done that, I saw one of those baby shows where a lesbian couple wanted a baby, so they got sperm from their gay male friend and presto! baby with 2 biological gay parents. Nothing would really happen though, I mean what would?

Interesting.

The real question is: How would this turn out in the long run?

A slippery slope tbh

The title is misleading. There are no new genes in these kid's chromosomes. The "third person" DNA in fact comes from the implanted mitochondria, which have their own independent genome that is different and distinct from the nuclear genome. Humans only inherent their maternal mitochondrial DNA (paternal mitochondria from the sperm are eliminated and not passed down) so the fact these kids will now have mitochondrial DNA from a different line is what makes this novel.