The Mito-Mom Conundrum.

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    • Subject Terms:
      INFERTILITY treatment & ethics; FERTILIZATION in vitro; UNITED States. Congress; GENOME editing; HUMAN embryos
    • Abstract:
      The article reflects on societal and ethical concerns related to mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), a procedure that allows women with mitochondrial disease to give birth to unaffected children by inserting a nucleus from one of her eggs into an enucleated egg from a woman with healthy mitochondria, followed by in vitro fertilization. It also mention ban imposed by the U.S. Congress on use of gene-editing techniques for creation of genetically modified human embryos.