Hello everybody! Today, continuing with my Designer Babies project, we will be talking about some more things that go along with IVF.
Sometimes during IVF, a process called Genetic Engineering takes place. Genetic Engineering is when doctors add new DNA to an organism, giving them different traits than the traits they would have had originally. (e.g. if the child has the genes for blonde hair or brown hair, the doctor can make sure that the child has blonde hair, instead of the possibility of brown hair).
Something else that kind of goes along with Genetic Engineering is Three-parent In-Vitro Fertilization, or TPIVF. TPIVF is a process in which the nucleus of an egg is inserted into the cytoplasm of another egg with different DNA, and fertilizing the hybrid egg with a sperm. In simpler terms, the doctors combine the DNA of two eggs from different women, and fertilize it. The reason why some people would want to do this is maybe neither parent carries the gene for a certain trait which they want their child to have. The parents then find an egg donor with that trait, and purchase that egg. Then the nucleus of the mother's egg is dipped into the cytoplasm of the donor egg.
Hope this helped!
Lydia
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