Grotesque. Horrific. Revolting. Two studies presented at the conference had the columnists scrabbling for adjectives. One group examined the possibility of obtaining eggs from aborted fetuses. The other looked at whether adding normal cells to an embryo with a genetic defect could make up for that defect.
Norbert Gleicher at the Center for Human Reproduction in New York thinks the latter could be an alternative to genetic engineering to correct defects. To make it easy to follow the fate of the added cells, his team added up to three male cells to 21 female embryos. Twelve developed into normal embryos.…
