Despite Calls for a Moratorium, More ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Expected Soon

Clinics in Europe say they will continue offering a controversial IVF procedure

Emily Mullin
OneZero
Published in
7 min readSep 16, 2019

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Human eight cell embryo for IVF selection.
Human embryo from IVF. Credit: K. Hardy/CC BY

AtAt least 10 babies have been born to apparently infertile women as a result of a controversial in vitro fertilization procedure that involves combining a mother’s egg with a donor one. The technique is often…

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Emily Mullin
OneZero

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.