Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 7G

    Second polar body transfer is a technique that involves taking the following steps, without intentionally modifying any nuclear DNA or mitochondrial DNA:

  (a)   fertilising, with a human sperm, a human egg of a woman to create a zygote ( zygote A );

  (b)   fertilising, with a human sperm, a human egg of a different woman to produce another zygote ( zygote B );

  (c)   removing the second polar body from zygote A;

  (d)   removing the female pronucleus from zygote B;

  (e)   transferring the second polar body from zygote A to zygote B.