Pre-fertilization DNA transfer to avoid mitochondrial disease inheritance appears safe, study shows: Results support use of a new IVF option - Science Daily

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study uses multiple 'omics' techniques to show that this strategy, called …

Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study from Wei… [+3661 chars]

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