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(MENAFN – AFP) The Greek mother of the first baby born using the DNA of three people on Friday hailed the revolutionary technique that helped her conceive – and thanked the mysterious woman who donated her egg.
According to the terms of the treatment, she was not allowed to meet the donor, said Matina Karavokyri, 32 years old. But she had a message for the woman whose egg donation allowed her to finally have a child through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
"I would like to thank her very much," she told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
"It is one of the many people who has helped me to make myself happy.I will never forget it, even if I do not know it.I wish it all the best. possible."
A team of Greek and Spanish doctors helped her to give birth to a baby boy Tuesday using a new IVF technique called the Maternal Spindle Transfer Method, at the Institute of Life, in Athens.
The team used a sterile mother's egg, the father's sperm and another woman's egg to conceive the baby, thus transferring the genetic material containing the mother's chromosomes to the baby. 39, egg of a donor whose genetic material had been removed.
A similar technique of DNA switching was used in Mexico in 2016 to prevent transmission of the inherited disease from a mother to her child.
This new technique has been developed to help mothers who have failed multiple times to conceive through IVF because of genetic disorders or other problems.
Karavokyri stated that she had made four unsuccessful attempts to fertilize by IVF when the new technique had been offered to them.
"Then I had the choice to try this new method and I did not think about it twice," she said.
And the new technique allowed him to keep his genetic material.
"It does not contain anything from a third person – it's up to us one hundred percent," added Karavokyri.
"We have finally managed to become parents and to acquire a healthy and biological child, thanks to a great scientific progress that will allow many women to submit to the child for whom they have tried IVF treatments. and who think they can not succeed, "she said.
The Greek embryology Panagiotis Psathas led the team that launched the approach, in collaboration with the Spaniard Nuno Costa-Borges.
Some specialists in the field, however, have expressed ethical reservations.
"I am concerned that the patient does not need to have her genetic material extracted and transferred to the eggs of a donor," said Tim Child, a professor at the University of Toronto. Oxford and Medical Director of the Fertility Partnership.
"The risks of the technique are not fully known, although they may be considered acceptable if they are used to treat a mitochondrial disease, but not in this situation," he said in a statement. a statement.
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