Monkey with DNA transplant created
The Oregon Health and Science University researchers have have successfully conducted the experiment of transferring DNA between eggs from rhesus macaques that may enable women to avoid passing certain genetic diseases on to their children.
AS PER a research report in the journal Nature, the researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University have successfully conducted the experiment of transferring DNA between eggs from rhesus macaques.
The experiment has the following future implications and applications.
- Enabling women to avoid passing certain genetic diseases on to their children.
- Overcoming diseases caused by inherited defects in mitochondria.
Scientists hold that if a woman has a disease caused by defects in the mitochondrial DNA, the new technique might someday make it possible for her to pass on her normal DNA from the nucleus but not the flawed DNA from the mitochondria.
Through test-tube fertilisation, the treated egg is likely to produce a baby without mitochondrial defects.
Scientists reported that the experiment has gained an early success, with the birth of four healthy monkeys.
Scientists reported that the experiment has gained an early success, with the birth of four healthy monkeys.
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