Chairman's Comments

Scientists today offered new hope for women at risk of passing on certain inherited diseases to their children, in the form of a pioneering technique to move healthy genetic material from fertilised eggs into donated ones. Researchers from Newcastle University say their breakthrough will help women whose children are at risk of a range of mitochondrial diseases. These disorde . . . 

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/14/scientists-gene-swap-technique-disease

 

Comment: Here is another genetic technique that is hoped to prevent disease, gene-swapping particularly for mitochondrial disorders. Others include: a closer look at IVF risks, egg-screening, drugs to switch genes on/off. Such approaches will be offered in parallel with improved nutritional and emotional nurturing. The more we can express our findings in epigenetic terms the more scientifically convincing can be the McCarrison approach in place of, or appropriately alongside, high technology. SHH