Thursday 19 January 2017

Ukraine Gets its First Baby Girl Born Using New ‘Three-Person’ IVF Technique

Ukraine Gets its First Baby Girl Born Using New ‘Three-Person’ IVF Technique
A baby girl was born in Ukraine on January 5, 2017 using the new technique of three-person IVF called ‘pronuclear transfer’.The infant is being considered as the world’s second baby to be developed using three-person IVF technique. The world’s first baby was born Mexico in September 2016.

Three-person IVF was legalised in the UK in 2015. The objective of three-person IVF is to create a child free of mitochondrial disease in cases where parents had one such disease.

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