MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE

All boxes ticked, UK rolls out 3-parent embryo treatment

Michael Cook | 17 December 2016 | Comments

tags: ivf, mitochondrial disease, mitochondrial replacement, uk

Not everyone is enthusiastic

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Mexican IVF clinic to use three-parent embryo technique

Michael Cook | 17 December 2016 | Comments

tags: ivf, mexico, mitochondrial disease, mitochondrial replacement

It expects 20 patients in the first half of the year

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Is there a last-minute hitch with 3-parent embryo trials?

Michael Cook | 03 December 2016 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial disease, three-parent embryos

Not as straightforward as scientists have painted it

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Hype and honours

Michael Cook | 18 June 2016 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial disease, three-parent embryos, UK

Is a knighthood part of a publicity campaign for three-parent embryos?

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Nature backs mitochondrial transfer

Michael Cook | 24 May 2014 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial disease, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos

The world’s most prestigious science journal, Nature, has thrown its weight behind the legalisation of “three-parent embryos”.

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UK to press ahead with 3-parent IVF babies

Michael Cook | 02 March 2014 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial disease, three-parent embryos, UK

Chief Medical Officer announces the launch of a consultation.

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Politicians denounce three-parent embryos as “eugenic”

Michael Cook | 13 October 2013 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial disease, three-parent embryos, UK

Opponents of the UK’s plans to legalise “three-parent embryos” have not given up.

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Three-parent children in UK possible after HFEA report

Michael Cook | 06 April 2013 | Comments

tags: eugenics, HFEA, mitochondrial disease, mitochondrial replacement

The UK is moving closer to three-parent children after the fertility regulator informed the government that the public would back a controversial embryo treatment.

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3-person embryo consultation launched in UK

Michael Cook | 22 September 2012 | Comments

tags: IVF, mitochondrial disease, UK

The UK’s fertility watchdog has launched a public consultation on the ethics of IVF-based techniques designed to avoid serious mitochondrial diseases.

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UK to consider three-parent IVF

Jared Yee | 28 January 2012 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial disease, three-parent embryos, UK

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.