UK has become the first country, which has approved the laws to allow the creation of babies from three people with the help of modern IVF technology.
The House of Lords has approved the law, and now the fertility regulator will decide how to license the procedure to prevent babies inheriting deadly genetic diseases, the BBC reported.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Encyclopedia section of medindia gives a brief introduction to infertility and reproduction
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Scientist explained that mitochondria are the tiny compartments inside nearly every cell of the body that convert food into useable energy and a genetic defect in it means that the body has insufficient energy to keep the heart beating or the brain functioning.
This modern technique will use a modified version of IVF to combine the healthy mitochondria of a donor woman with DNA of the two parents and will result in babies with 0.1 percent of their DNA from the second woman and is a permanent change that would echo down through the generations.
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Children born from artificial fertilization have much better chance of survival and good health due to better techniques and policies, said a Scandinavian study on Wednesday.
Lord Howe, health minister said that it will help the families in many ways and came out to be a big hope for them.
James Lawford Davies, a lawyer from Lawford Davies Denoon said that all of the legal arguments made in opposition to the regulations were hopeless and the regulations didn't breach the Clinical Trials Directive which applied only to medicinal products.
The first baby with the IVF modern technique could be born as early as 2016.
Source: ANI
Healthier IVF Babies Now
Children born from artificial fertilization have much better chance of survival and good health due to better techniques and policies, said a Scandinavian study on Wednesday.
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Lord Howe, health minister said that it will help the families in many ways and came out to be a big hope for them.
James Lawford Davies, a lawyer from Lawford Davies Denoon said that all of the legal arguments made in opposition to the regulations were hopeless and the regulations didn't breach the Clinical Trials Directive which applied only to medicinal products.
The first baby with the IVF modern technique could be born as early as 2016.
Source: ANI
Infertile Couples may Have Kids from IVF
Infertile couples who cannot produce their own sex cells may finally be able to have children through IVF after scientists achieved a key breakthrough in making sperm and eggs from skin cells.
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 Zinc Sparks After Fertilization Could be Useful in Improving IVFAfter fertilization, mammalian egg releases from its surface billions of zinc atoms in 'zinc sparks,' one wave after another. | Advertisement
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