A team of Greek and Spanish doctors produced a baby from three people using a controversial IVF technique
A team of Greek and Spanish doctors has produced a baby from three people using a controversial IVF technique.
The experimental procedure, which used DNA from the patient, sperm from the father, and an egg from a donor woman, was developed to help families affected by deadly mitochondrial diseases inherited from mothers.In this case it was used to help a 32-year-old patient in Greece who had endured four unsuccessful cycles of IVF. She gave birth to a baby boy weighing 6 pounds on April 9. The mother and child are said to be in good health.
Child added that the patient may have conceived even if a further standard IVF cycle had been used."Without a proper well designed study, with the use of controls, it is not possible to say whether this technique has benefited the patient," he concluded.
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