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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 don
by Crito 12y ago
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)?
- geographomics 12y agoThis 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 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_scientific_review.pdf http://www.hfea.gov.uk/docs/Third_Mitochondrial_replacement_...