“Imagine: you have two heterosexual couples (male-female, male-female). From one couple you make an embryo, and from that embryo you make an egg. In the other couple you also make an embryo and from From that a sperm cell. If you then combine that egg and sperm cell, you can conceive a living fetus, “Heindryckx gives as a practical example.
Interesting detail: the four people are not the baby’s parents, but genetically speaking the grandparents. “The embryo you start from is the mum and dad of the egg.” In theory, the combinations become endless via IVG.
WATCH VRT At the beginning of this year, NWS had an interview with professor Heindryck about the so-called “three-parent baby”:
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