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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.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC

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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