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Published online 3 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070702-5
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Mother donates frozen eggs to daughter
Legal first means girl could one day give birth to her own half-sibling.
A seven-year-old girl in Canada might one day give birth to her genetic half-sibling. The girl's mother has donated her own eggs to give the child, who was born with a disease that affects her ovaries, the chance to have children of her own.
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