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Diagram for cytoplasmic transfer for Embryo repair

• Both the mother's and donor's eggs are fertilised with the father's sperm to create two embryos
• The pronuclei, the nuclei during the process of fertilisation, contain the majority of the genetic material. They are removed from both embryos. The donor's is destroyed
• A healthy embryo is created by putting the parents' pronuclei into the donor embryo

Reference

[1] The girl with three biological parents

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