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It seems to me that the 'three people' metaphor is a bit misguided. I'd look at it as an organ donor-ship to an embryo - just a special organ that gets copied i
by m_mueller 12y ago
It seems to me that the 'three people' metaphor is a bit misguided. I'd look at it as an organ donor-ship to an embryo - just a special organ that gets copied into every cell.
- wtallis 12y agoIt isn't just copied into every cell, it's also heritable—just a very insignificant inheritance.
- geographomics 12y agoI think "three people" is okay as it correctly gets across how many contributors there are of genetic and other biological material. Some other sources have been referring to "three-parent babies" though, which doesn't seem right, as the mitochondrial donor has no maternal role or rights to the baby.
- tomp 12y agoIt's not, really, it's the other way around. The "mother's" nucleus is transplanted into the donor's nucleus-less egg (which has all the mitochondria). The appropriate analogy would be transplanting one person's brain into another person's body.