Though this is not new news, the power of the internet is fueling the fires of fear about this story - here is the Daily Fail version:

World’s first GM babies born

The world’s first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.

The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.

So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three ‘parents’.

Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.

The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilised in an attempt to enable them to conceive.

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The reason the Daily Fail can get away with writing this kind of stuff, and why so many internet conspiracy sites flourish on this kind of stuff, is the ignorance of biology widespread in our society.

What happened, simply, is that one female donated mitochondria via ova, while the other women donated the nuclear DNA. The mitochondria are tiny, have very little DNA. There is no “modification” of the DNA here, but rather a transplant.

It is the cellular equivalent to a kidney transplant.

Anyway, the idiot-sphere is full of scare stories and the idea of eugenics being currently perpetrated is one of them.