] "Cockroaches are robust -- they can go into environments
] that humans can't withstand," Brinker said. "You could
] attach a sensing device onto the back of a cockroach and
] send it into a place where you suspect they're making
] chemical weapons.

not sure how you'd get the roach back, but, still, pretty cool stuff...

The yeast and the cockroach -- a spy tale

]] A controversial IVF technique could see babies
]] being born with three parents, scientists have suggested.
]]
]] Experts in China say they have created embryos using eggs
]] from two women and sperm from one man...
]
]Marie, should this be legal or not?

i have no problem with this. they're just using a healthy woman's egg cell as a carrier, right? there shouldn't be any of the donors DNA left to complicate the fertilization.

it's like, one lady had a cracked mixing bowl, so she borrowed her neighbors bowl in order to mix up the ingredients for some cookies. as long as the neighbors bowl wasn't still caked with paprika and chili powder from her own cooking, the cookies should be fine, untainted by her neighbors recipe.

seems like calling it three-parent is misleading if the donor of the "blank egg" has no genetic effect. does the cytoplasm have more to do with embryonic development than i think it does? a genetic or mechanical influence?

BBC NEWS | Health | Foetus with three parents created