Denis Alexander - Three-Parent Babies? (N90)

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🗓️ 26 February 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Britain is set to become the first country to have three parent babies! It's all to do with genetically modifying an embryo to prevent certain inherited diseases. But as with many scientific advances folks like us are left worrying about the...

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.2	Welcome back to Nomad podcast. My name's Tim Nash. I'm Dave Ward. We thought it'd be good to perhaps let
0:24.1	sort of current events set the agenda. But it's not always easy to quickly prepare an interview
0:30.9	based around a current event. And certainly the one we're going to be looking at today,
0:34.6	I wouldn't even know where to start. No. It's quite complex, isn't it? Even you wouldn't know where to start on this one, would you? So what we're going to be looking at today, I wouldn't even know where to start. No, it's quite complex, isn't it?
0:37.7	Even you wouldn't know where to start on this one, would you?
0:40.8	So what we're doing was going to ask a guest to sort of send in a reflection on a particular
0:46.6	current event to give some expert input, and then we're going to root it in our typical
0:51.8	ignorance and confusion.
0:54.0	Fantastic. Sounds good to me.
0:55.7	So it's kind of a short conversation started for the listener.
0:58.8	Yeah. Maybe we should do all of our things like that. Then we don't need to be so much
1:02.4	easier.
1:04.5	So here's a current event, Wadde. Britain is to become the first country in the world with three
1:10.5	parent babies.
1:12.0	Wow.
1:12.7	Have you heard of such a phenomenon?
1:14.2	Yeah, it has been in the news bit, hasn't it?
1:15.9	The title's a little bit misleading because it's actually two parents and then a second
1:20.6	woman donates her DNA to prevent certain genetic diseases related specifically to the mitochondria.
1:28.0	Yeah.
1:28.5	You heard of the old mitochondria?
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