Further review of "three-parent" embryo technique

Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

This is another discussion of the mother-father-mitochondiadonor embryo that I mentioned the other day. It is significantly more revealing. It seems that the mitochondrial transfer involved moving nuclear DNA from the diseased embryo to the healthy one instead of into an ovum from another source.

It also discusses their methods. It seems that the exchange was performed in embryos that had failed in other experiments. The ten successes came from many failures. The specific success to failure ratio is not given.

Keywords: mitochondria mitochondrial DNA embryo embryos human reproduction fertility nuclear transfer somatic cell nuclear transfer nuclear DNA