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Donor Embryo

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Donor Embryo
An embryo formed from the egg of a woman who has donated it for transfer to a ‘recipient’ woman who is unable to conceive with her own eggs. The donor relinquishes parental rights to any resulting offspring


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Byline: LYNNE KELLEHER HUNDREDS of Irish women in their forties are flying to Spain for donor eggs and donor embryos in last a ditch attempt to have a baby.
Once a woman has gone beyond a certain point, the only option open to her is to use donor eggs or donor embryos.
But embryos created in fertility treatments are often frozen at precisely the stage the technique uses, so there may be a large pool of potential donor embryos that people with mitochondrial diseases could draw from.
 
 
 
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