A couple who spent a decade trying to conceive have become the first to successfully use a “three-person IVF” method to treat infertility this month — but experts warn that the treatment is still highly experimental and there is not enough proof that it can improve the chances of getting pregnant.
On Wednesday, it was revealed by a clinic in Ukraine that doctors had used an experimental technique called pronuclear transfer, which sees the father’s sperm combined with the mother’s egg before the merged genes are placed into an egg donated by a third woman.
The egg was then implanted into the …read more
Source: VICE News
