London, England, Feb 5, 2008 / 18:12 pm
British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man, the Associated Press reports.
The process would be used as part of an in-vitro fertilization procedure to create healthy embryos for couples who do not want to pass on genetic diseases to their children.
The research, funded by the British charity the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, was presented at a scientific conference recently but has not been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.
Patrick Chinnery, a professor of neurogenetics at Newcastle University who is involved in the research, described the research goal to the Associated Press, saying, "We are not trying to alter genes, we're just trying to swap a small proportion of the bad ones for some good ones."