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A fertility clinic in Newcastle was just granted permission to start performing what’s known as the “three-parent baby” technique, a controversial in vitro fertilisation procedure that prevents genetic diseases from being passed on to children by giving them three genetic “parents”.
At least 60 Australian babies born each year suffer with severe and life-threatening forms of mitochondrial disease, a condition which starves major organs of energy. But by using the mother’s and father’s nuclear DNA, and replacing the mother’s defective mitochondrial DNA with healthy mitochondrial DNA from a donor egg, this…
The New York Times is following a team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic as they attempt the first uterus transplant in the United States. If successful, the procedure will let women who’ve had a hysterectomy, or who were born without a uterus, carry a foetus to term and give…
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