Episode 1: Innovations and limitations of fertility treatments

A discussion on the high cost of fertility treatments, success rates, and the controversial practice of creating embryos with genetic material from two mothers and one father. Guest: Dr. Sherman Silber, director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis Editor's note: Since the recording of this episode, the world's first baby has reportedly been born from an embryo containing genetic material from two mothers and one father. The fertility procedure, banned in the U.S., was performed in Mexico. Mitochondria from the mother's egg was replaced by that part of a donor woman's egg to prevent the baby from inheriting a fatal disease.

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Episode 1: Innovations and limitations of fertility treatments is an episode from Making Babies by Gary Hairlson.

This episode is 24:03 long.

This episode was published on Sep 29, 2016.

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