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A successful new IVF method

The Institute of Life IVF Center in Greece and Embryotools in Spain achieve new assisted reproduction innovation
Written byDDNews Staff
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ATHENS, Greece—The successful birth of the first healthy baby through the Maternal Spindle Transfer method – implemented for the first time by Greece’s Institute of Life and Spain’s Embryotools – is a global first, offering the potential to preserve the mother’s genetic material. The method was implemented by Institute of Life IVF Center and Embryotools in order to address fertility issues associated with multiple in vitro fertilization (IVF) failures caused by cytoplasmic dysfunction of the oocytes, or by rare mitochondrial genetic diseases.

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