Three Parent Embryos: Modifying Future Generations

Rebecca Taylor has an article in the National Catholic Register about scientists experimenting with three-parent embryos to try to combat mitochondrial disease: The Catholic Church is clear that somatic gene therapy, non-inheritable genetic engineering in one individual for therapeutic reasons, is a moral good. But the Church draws a clear line between somatic and germ-line gene therapy. Dignitas Personae, the … Continue reading Three Parent Embryos: Modifying Future Generations