A number of years ago we reported on how a "three-person IVF" procedure could be used to stop serious conditions from being passed from mother to child. The prospect caused serious concern among many scientists and ethicists. But now the BBC is reporting that a bioethics council is green-lighting the treatment.

Yesterday afternoon, voters in Mississippi took to the polls to vote on Initiative 26 — aka "the Personhood amendment." The ballot measure proposed to amend the state's constitution to redefine "person" to mean "every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof." If approved, the…

Researchers can now determine if newly-fertilized mouse eggs will produce healthy offspring simply by observing them. Their findings may have implications for improving the rate of conception in couples undergoing in vitro fertilization, many of whom can only afford to perform the expensive procedure once or twice.