“Women Travel Thousands of Miles for Reproductive ‘Moonshot’ IVF Technique, but Scientists ” — what this page in the network covers. A pioneering IVF technique originally developed to prevent children from inheriting mitochondrial diseases is now being marketed to older women as a fertility treatment, despite a lack of evidence that it works for age-related infertility. Clinics in countries such as Greece, Spain, and Ukraine are Clinics in countries such as Greece, Spain, and Ukraine are offering maternal spindle transfer (MST) and pronuclear transfer to women over 40, charging tens of thousands of dollars.
But scientists and fertility experts warn that these procedures have not been proven effective for age-related decline in egg quality, and they raise significant safety and ethical concerns. The technique involves transferring nuclear DNA from an older woman’s egg into a younger donor’s egg that has had its nucleus removed, creating an embryo with genetic material from three people. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.