UK scientists have been granted permission by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.
The UK government has announced its intention to draft proposals allowing carriers of mitochondrial disease to have babies using a controversial IVF treatment that’s currently prohibited. The procedure is controversial because the babies will inherit DNA from three genetic parents.
Japanese researchers have turned mouse stem cells into germ cells that give rise to eggs in living mice. These eggs have produced viable offspring through IVF.
Some IVF patients are being offered risky, unsafe techniques which have not been developed with clinical trial and which offer dubious benefits
IVF clinics are already offering clients the possibility of sifting their embryos to ensure that they will not inherit the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.