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FDA Cracks Down On Marketing 'Three-Parent' Babies
- Washington Post, Tuesday, August 8, 2017 8 AM
Federal regulators issued a sternly worded letter to fertility doctor John Zhang, who helped a mother with a genetic disorder give birth to a healthy baby boy by using a procedure that combines DNA from her, her husband and an egg donor. The embryo was created in New York, where Zhang's company is based, and was taken to Mexico, where it was implanted in the mother. The FDA says that's not allowed.
