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Comments and Questions from Our Inbox
August 27, 2014 • Posted in Blog
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Readers are always welcome to send in questions regarding bioethics issues. This past month, a wide range of thoughtful questions and comments have arrived in our inbox. A few representative ones have been chosen for this newsletter (with no identifiers included, of course).
Read on . . . and remember that you can always contact us here.
1) What exactly are three-parent embryos?Mitochondria are the power packs in our human cells, and reside in the cytoplasm — not in the nucleus. Mitochondrial disease varies widely in its expression, and has a prevalence rate of about 1 in 10,000 (Ricki ...read more
The Ovolution of the Three-Parent Embryo
June 17, 2012 • Posted in Blog
By D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Executive Director
The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture
The United Kingdom presented the rest of the world with Louise Joy Brown in July, 1978, the first test-tube baby. They convened what became known as the Warnock Committee to advise Parliament regarding the new reproductive technologies: “what policies and safeguards should be applied, including consideration of the social, ethical, and legal implications of these developments, and to make recommendations.” (Warnock, A Question of Life, 4.) The Warnock Committee by a slim margin approved a variety of reproductive adventures, including ...read more 