Researchers in Newcastle, England implanted genetic material from a human mother and father into a second human female's egg-cell that had been left over from in vitro fertilization treatments. Apparently, if a mother is a carrier for certain genetic defects using another mother's egg-cell exterior might keep the baby from inheriting the defect of the mother.
The researchers let their experiment (the embryo) develop for a few days and then destroyed it.
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