Ed Uthman Dutch politicians have reached a compromise on testing embryos for hereditary diseases. Earlier, the issue caused a crisis in the Dutch cabinet. Deputy Health Minister Jet Bussemaker tried to expand the practice, only to be blocked by another coalition party, the Christian Union. The government has now decided to create two separate commissions. One to evaluate each individual case of embryo selection, and one to determine which diseases can be selected for.

British scientists have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.