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Maternal spindle transfer for mitochondrial disease: lessons to be learnt before extending the method to other conditions?
Human fertility (Cambridge, England) - 1 Dec 2022
Siristatidis Charalampos, Mantzavinos Themis, Vlahos Nikos
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Mitochondrial diseases are a group of conditions attributed to mutations of specific genes that regulate mitochondrial function. Maternal spindle transfer (MST) has been proposed as a method to prevent the transmission of these diseases and utilisation of the technique resulted in the birth of a baby free of disease in 2017 in Mexico. Potential flaws in research governance and the associated criticism emerged...
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