5 takeaways from STAT’s investigation of the sprawling ‘three-parent IVF’ industry
The procedure, known as MRT — for mitochondrial replacement techniques — is sometimes called “ three-parent IVF,” because it involves creating embryos that combine the genes of a mother and father with a bit of DNA from the mitochondria of a third person.
After trying to have a second child for several years, they had signed up with a U.S.-based company called International Fertility Group (IFG), paying tens of thousands of dollars for access abroad to an experimental fertility procedure illegal in the U.S.
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