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An Illinois-based company facilitates trips to clinics abroad for illegal three-parent IVF, despite scant evidence that the procedure works.
- Field
- gene therapy
- What they did
- Scientists developed an IVF technique using donor nuclear DNA to reduce the risk of inheriting fatal mitochondrial diseases, but it is being marketed online as a fertility treatment for older women.
- Why it matters
- The procedure is illegal in the United States, but companies facilitate travel for women in the US and Europe to clinics abroad to undergo it.
#mitochondrial disease#three-parent ivf#fertility#clinical trial
