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Need for public debate about fertility treatments

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Manipulations of the mitochondrial germ line must be openly debated and followed up.

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  1. The Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center, University of California, 214 Dickinson Street, CTF, C-103, San Diego, San Diego, 92103-8467, California, USA

    Robert K. Naviaux

  2. Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Bunting-Blaustein Cancer Research Building, 1650 Orleans Street, Room 1–143, Baltimore, 21231-1000, Maryland, USA

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