At 08:31 PM 11/17/98 -0800, Kathryn wrote:
>The actual technique involves removing one egg each from the fertile and the
>infertile woman. The nuclei from both eggs are then removed. The nucleus
>from the healthy egg is transferred to the infertile egg. The reconstituted
>egg is then fertilized (with sperm, wouldn't you know.)
Wouldn't have worked otherwise (at the current state of know-how), since males and females silence different genes in their germ cells in the process called genomic imprinting. Experiments in fusing two female haploid nuclei have failed for this reason - key constructional mechanisms have been turned off.
Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em (for now).
Damien Broderick