MITOCHONDRIAL REPLACEMENT

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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Baby born from three parent technique

Xavier Symons | 01 October 2016 | Comments

tags: ivf, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos

Scientists have announced the first successful birth of a baby conceived using Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT)

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Three parent babies – but only males

Xavier Symons | 06 February 2016 | Comments

tags: gender, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos, US

The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has recommended that US government allow mitochondrial DNA transfer in male embryos.

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Ground shifts in UK debate over “three-parent embryos”

Michael Cook | 20 September 2014 | Comments

tags: media, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos

New Scientist magazine does an ethical back flip.

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At long last, a follow-up study of “cytoplasmic transfer”

Michael Cook | 06 September 2014 | Comments

tags: cytoplasmic transfer, mitochondrial replacement

About 30 children conceived from this technique have been born, 17 of them from an American IVF clinic between 1996 and 2002.

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British MP blasts “three-parent embryos”

Michael Cook | 06 September 2014 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos, UK

In a terse summary of objections to the practice of mitochondrial transfer to prevent serious diseases Sir Edward Leigh, a Conservative MP, told the House of Common this week.

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Lord Winston warns of unregulated IVF ‘jungle’

Xavier Symons | 27 June 2014 | Comments

tags: egg freezing, IVF, mitochondrial replacement, preimplantation genetic diagnosis

In a recent interview with the Independent Robert Winston warned of deception in the IVF market. Fertility companies, he believes, are exaggerating the effectiveness and safety of new techniques.

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HFEA finds mitochondrial transfer ‘not unsafe’

Xavier Symons | 07 June 2014 | Comments

tags: HFEA, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos, UK

The peak UK IVF regulatory body has published its findings on the controversial new procedure known as mitochondrial replacement therapy.

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Is the UK too quick on the draw about 3-parent babies?

Michael Cook | 07 June 2014 | Comments

tags: genetic engineering, genetics, mitochondrial replacement, UK

Two American bioethicists have questioned the haste with which the United Kingdom is seeking to legalise mitochondrial transfer

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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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“Mitochondrial transfer” is a misnomer: Stuart Newman

Michael Cook | 22 March 2014 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial replacement

A leading US scientist has delivered a broadside at the scientific ignorance and spin involved in the debate.

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“Mitochondrial transfer” is dangerous: Maureen Condic

Michael Cook | 22 March 2014 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial replacement

Some women are carriers of a genetic disease because of defective mitochondria. Replace hers with healthy mitochondria donated by a another woman. Result: a healthy child. Problem solved. What’s to worry about? Plenty.

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US must debate “mitochondrial transfer”: Thomas H. Murray

Xavier Symons | 22 March 2014 | Comments

tags: artificial reproduction, mitochondrial replacement

The former head of the Hastings Centre for Bioethics has written a forceful opinion editorial in Science calling for “a nationwide conversation about current and emerging reproductive technologies”.

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FDA to study “three-parent embryos”

Michael Cook | 16 February 2014 | Comments

tags: eugenics, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos

Will it open the door to eugenics through genetic engineering?

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Grave concern about the safety of new IVF procedure

Xavier Symons | 21 September 2013 | Comments

tags: mitochondrial replacement

A paper published this week in the journal Science questioned the safety an IVF procedure designed to prevent mitochondrial diseases in children.

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UK to allow research into three-parent embryos

Michael Cook | 29 June 2013 | Comments

tags: genetics, mitochondrial replacement, three-parent embryos

The UK government has decided that it will allow the creation of three-parent embryos to prevent the births of children with mitochondrial diseases.

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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.