UK to allow three person invirto fertilisation
990 views · Published 4 February 2015 · 2:28 · Indexed 3 October 2026
Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2015 · News & Politics
British politicians have voted in favour of a controversial invitro fertilization technique that would stop mothers from handing down defective genes to their children. In the new technique a healthy nucleus is placed into a fertilised egg from a donor interrupting the inheritance of some genetic diseases. Al Jazeera's Simon McGregor-Wood reports from London.
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