Posts tagged Mitochondrial Diseases

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 118: Pondering the Implications of 3 Parent Embryos

It should be obvious how any approach that weakens or casts into question the integral connection between parents and their offspring will raise grave ethical concerns.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2015Embryos, Genetics and Genome Editing, Mitochondrial Diseases, In Vitro Fertilization, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 051: The Ethics Of “Correcting” Mitochondrial Disease

We are not actually ‘repairing’ a defective egg, but constructing a new, alternative, and clearly different egg out of the contributions from two separate women. The final egg produced really belongs to neither woman...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2009In Vitro Fertilization, Mitochondrial Diseases

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