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Mitochondrial Replacement: Ethics and Identity

19 Oct 2015

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Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) have the potential to allow prospective parents who are at risk of passing on debilitating or even life-threatening mitochondrial disorders to have healthy children to whom they are genetically related. Ethical concerns have however been raised about these techniques. This article focuses on one aspect of the ethical debate, the question of whether there is any moral...

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PMID: 26481204
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12187

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