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Posted by michael on Friday May 04, 2001 @02:44PM from the dawn-of-homo-superior dept.

sh64109 writes: "According to this article that just popped up on the BBC, some children were born recently with modified genes. The modification was made to mitochondrial (not nuclear) DNA so only the girls (if there were any) will be able to pass this on. The purpose of the mod was to correct an infertility problem."

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