Call for Australia to allow mitochondrial donation techniques
A campaign has been launched in Australia to overturn laws preventing couples from accessing mitochondrial donation...
by Jenny Sharpe
A campaign has been launched in Australia to overturn laws preventing couples from accessing mitochondrial donation...
Almost a year after the first live birth of a baby following a mitochondrial replacement technique procedure, the US Food and Drug Administration has sent a very strongly-worded letter to the scientist and team responsible for the event...
The Food and Drug Administration has warned a US fertility doctor to stop marketing mitochondrial replacement therapy — a technique involving the creation of an embryo with DNA from three people...
The fertility doctor who led the team which produced the world's first baby through mitochondrial replacement therapy is now looking to use the same technique in a commercial venture...
by Professor Cathy Herbrand and 1 others
The UK's first symposium to discuss the sociology of mitochondrial disorders and novel reproductive technologies took place on 5 May 2017 in London. The event aimed to develop sociological thought around mitochondrial donation, based on invited contributi
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is seeking views on the reproductive uses of genome editing in humans. Regular readers of BioNews will know that genome editing (including with the CRISPR-Cas9 technique) offers a way of making precisely targeted modifica
Breathing air containing about half the usual percentage of oxygen can reverse mitochondrial disease in mice...
It is not every day that we can examine the details of the first use of a new reproductive technology. But the first live birth of a baby following the use of a mitochondrial replacement technique (MRT) in IVF last year gives a window into just this. The
Details of the world's first successful use of mitochondrial replacement therapy in IVF have been published...
Doctors at Newcastle Fertility Centre have been granted the first UK licence to use mitochondrial replacement therapy as a fertility treatment to prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial disease...
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