Some words of wisdom

I’ve written about mitochondrial transplants for human embryos before (especially how it isn’t new, having been first done in 1998), but it still is getting a lot of press as a “three-parent IVF” method. But fortunately the Wellcome Trust has an article to set them all straight on the science of it. I like this part:

1 + 1 + 0.00001 ≠ 3

Also, in an article to The Times the Wellcome Trust’s director, Sir Mark Walport, wrote this very pithy sentence:

 If a child with donated mitochondria can be said to have three parents, then the recipient of a heart transplant could be said to have four.

Damn straight!

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