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Hekate

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Fri Apr-16-10 02:15 PM
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4. You would think so. It might be the compassionate thing to counsel them out of the notion, but...

... the desire to reproduce yourself is enormously powerful in a lot of people. This will be hugely expensive, so not likely to be too common.

The couples (? triples?) will be lab rats in a huge experiment; it's already known, though not much discussed by non-scientists, that using surrogate mothers can result in some transfer of DNA, and this new experiment will deliberately mix the DNA from three parents.

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