“…Research gamete donors were financially compensated for their time, effort, discomfort, and inconvenience associated with the donation process at rates similar to donors whose gametes were used for reproductive purposes. This specific IRB protocol was first approved in 2011 and then reviewed annually with modifications allowing the development, evaluation and testing, in vitro, of novel mitochondrial replacement techniques (see Data S1) (Kang et al, 2016;Ma et al, 2015;Tachibana et al, 2013a;Tachibana et al, 2013b).…”