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A NEW LAST CHANCE: There could soon be a baby-boom among women who thought they’d hit an IVF dead-end. Top Fertility doctor John Zhang and New Hope Fertility Center, featured in New York Magazine for succeeding with abnormal embryo transfers where other fertility specialists fail.

Last year, John Zhang, a New York endocrinologist who specializes in fertility, generated controversy when he announced that he helped a couple in Mexico have the first baby conceived with the genetic material of three different adults.

When reproductive endocrinologist John Zhang introduced a new in vitro fertilization technique at a medical conference in China in 1997, the audience responded with snickers and modest applause. “[They] told me my head was in the clouds,” Zhang recalls.

When you want to have a baby, and are having trouble, the costs of IVF can suck your savings dry. So it was considered a lottery of sorts when Dr. John Zhang of Manhattan’s New Hope Fertility Center addressed a Facebook Live audience to announce he was choosing the winners of his IVF contest.

While other teens are planning for prom, Stephanie Gallagher is fighting a disease that threatens her future ability to have children. Thrown into premature menopause, Gallagher, 16, suffered an auto-immune disease in which antibodies attacked her ovaries. Doctors say she has lost more than half her egg follicles over the past few months.

Dr. Zhang Debates the likelihood of his latest EGG REJUVENATION technology that may be able to extend a woman’s naturally occurring fertility. Watch a clip from the Fortune Health Conference in San Diego here.

A world-renowned fertility doctor in the city is offering couples a chance to win free In Vitro Fertilization services via online lottery for National Infertility Awareness Week — but it comes with strings attached. In exchange for a free cycle of IVF treatments, winners must agree to become poster children, of sorts, for infertility awareness by sharing their joy on social media.

John Zhang, a well-known specialist in reproductive medicine who runs the New Hope Fertility Center out of a vast and science-fiction-looking office on Columbus Circle, believes he has played a singular role in the fiscal health of New York City. Patients come to him from around the world, from the Middle East, from Kenya, from Nigeria, Spain and China. Perhaps especially from China.

“Watch New Hope Fertility’s Dr. Zhaher Merhi, Director of IVF Research, discuss the latest technological advancement in fertility, Artificial Wombs. Interviewed on Crossroads for I-24 News, Dr. Merhi discusses the future of this new technology and how it may or may not help women become pregnant and overcome premature births.”

Fifteen percent of American couples face infertility struggles, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The journey for both men and women can be isolating. The CDC recently released a study showing the infertility rate in the United States affects 1 in 8 couples. Watch more here.

The first “three-parent” baby was conceived in Mexico’s New Hope in 2015 but delivered in New York City last year. He was born to a Jordanian couple at risk of reproducing a rare disorder called Leigh disease, an incurable that can lead to a child’s death within years from birth. Dr. Chávez-Badiola, a gynecologist and obstetrician trained in Mexico and the United Kingdom, told Fox News he hopes to apply MRT to 20 pregnancies in the first half of 2017.

He would not disclose, however, how many three-way pregnancies are underway at this time. The Jordanian couple was treated in the New Hope clinic in Mexico by a U.S. team led by Dr. Zhang. So far, the boy appears to be healthy, according to New Hope, and the successful procedure led Chávez-Badiola and his peers to the conclusion that their work should be extended to a larger number of couples in Mexico.

Gone is the traditional belief that it only takes genes from one man and one woman to get together and reproduce new life, not anymore. A pioneering reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. John Zhang and his team, have given couples with a known history of genetic diseases, a new opportunity to raise a child through the conception of a 3-parent-baby.