How can you have a child of your choice through IVF?
It is everyone's dream to become a parent. There are many women who are unable to become mothers naturally, so they either resort to IVF or surrogacy. But even then they do not know what the child's eyes, colour, hair texture and other characteristics will be like. This is known only when the child takes his first step in the world and gradually grows up. Choosing the characteristics of children according to one's own wishes is an interference in the laws of nature.
However, medical science has now progressed so much that if a person wants, he can give birth to a child of his choice on earth. Such children are called designer babies. british scientists have done this with the help of three person in vitro fertilization i.e. three person IVF. Let us understand this in detail.
Where were designer babies born?
British scientists have produced eight children who are completely free from genetic diseases through the three-person IVF technique. These children were born by mixing the dna of three people. The children born include four boys and four girls. One of them is also a twin. This technique of medical science is like magic for those people in whose family some genetic disease has been going on for years. In such a situation, designer babies will remain untouched by those diseases.
How does the technique work?
According to this study published in the New england Journal of Medicine, scientists believe that all these children were completely healthy and the mother's bad dna was not found in the examination of these children, or even if it was found, it was in such a small amount that the possibility of spreading the disease was negligible. Let us know in points how this technique works-
According to the study, through the three-person IVF technique, the nucleus of the mother's eggs and the father's sperm are transferred to a third healthy woman.
Mary Herbert, the lead author of this research and professor at Newcastle University, says that mitochondrial donation technology is currently considered to be less risky.
Why has America banned designer babies?
Even though this technology seems like magic to the common people and they think that it can save their future child from genetic diseases, three person IVF technology has been banned in America. While in 2015, britain became the country in the world where mitochondrial donation was legally approved. The same year, America banned it.