three-parent babies
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This Controversial Doctor Wants To Use ‘Three-Parent’ Embryos To Treat Infertility
Last spring, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been born using a new technique requiring three genetic parents. The baby’s mother carried the genes for a fatal nervous system disorder called Leigh syndrome, but Zhang had been able to keep the disease from being…
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A Flaw Has Been Detected In A Ground-Breaking Fertility Treatment
Scientists say that a groundbreaking fertility treatment to correct potentially harmful genetic mutations has the potential to backfire, recreating the exact mutation the intervention was meant to fix. It’s a problem that could put an immediate halt to the pending practice — but a work-around may be possible.
