Three-parent Embryos

UK to consider three-parent IVF

Jared Yee | 28 January 2012

The controversial practice known as “three-parent IVF” has drawn one step closer in the UK with the government’s announcement of public consultation into its acceptability. The Wellcome Trust has also announced that it would allocate extra funds to expand research into the technique, which uses genetic material from 3 parents – 2 women and a man – to build a baby. The procedure, which currently banned, is a response to mitochondrial disease – defects in the small frameworks called mitochondria which surround the cell nucleus.

Three-parent embryos could prevent genetic disease, say UK scientists

Michael Cook | 17 April 2010

Embryos created free of mitochondrial defects