COVER STORY: Gene manipulation: time to call a halt*

The latest revelation that American scientists have created the first babies carrying DNA from a man and two different women, through manipulating a woman’s ova, has caused the alarm bells to ring – momentarily – around the world.The practice, used to boost the low success rate in IVF by introducing exoplasmic material from a donor woman into the ova of older infertile women. Such material contains DNA from the donor.The procedure is banned by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Cou…

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