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Re:UK to allow babies from three people by Crito on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:25PM (#8994776)
Does anybody know why the "embryo repair" method would be used if the "egg repair" method was also an option? Is the embryo-repair method meant to weed out donor eggs that were not viable (by first ensuring that they can at least be fertilized, by fertilizing them)?
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Re:UK to allow babies from three people by geographomics on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:32PM (#8995180)
This paper from 2011 has a nice comparison of the two methods, there's pros and cons for both: [1]

According to the HFEA [2], the research group in Newcastle (who wrote the above paper) has been testing the two methods against each other - no decision yet as to the best for treatment, though.

[1] http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/R2/R168.full#sec-5

[2] Section 3.4.4 of http://www.hfea.gov.uk/docs/Third_Mitochondrial_replacement_...

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