So this happened some time ago …

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/uk-allows-ivf-using-dna-three-parents

And started a huge argument between my friends, regarding “genetically modified babies”. My friend who is not a biology major, was set against the idea because she felt that genetically manipulating babies is immoral.  In my opinion, since this technique is being used to treat a vital disease, then it should not be publicly discouraged and be labelled as “genetically modifying” (which carries a negative connotation already). Since they are simply changing the cytoplasm of the cell and only the mitochondrial genes will get replaced, which is only 37 genes (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/mitochondrial-dna), then can this really be called genetically modifying? It seems to me that many people have found a fear of anything that is labelled as genetically modified, however I think that this fear is not scientifically accurate because this term can have a very wide range of applications, for example even selectively breading dogs can be termed genetically modifying.

So what does genetically modifying really mean to the general public … ?