cytoplasmic transfer

an assisted reproductive technique in which an ovum, removed from the intended mother, is injected with cytoplasm from the ovum of a different donor, who is generally younger; the treated egg is then inseminated and returned to the uterus of the mother.

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The experimental technique making this possible -- a cytoplasmic transfer, in Alana's case -- was halted by the Food and Drug Administration in 2001.

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His technique, known as cytoplasmic transfer, was intended to "rescue" the eggs of infertile women who had undergone repeated, unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

When the first baby conceived through cytoplasmic transfer was born in 1997, the press instantly hailed Cohen's technique as yet another technological miracle.

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Cytoplasmic transfer involves sucking out about 5% of the cytoplasm from an infertile woman's egg and replacing it with cytoplasm from a donor egg.