The first babies with DNA from three people have been born in the UK after doctors experimented with an innovative IVF procedure in the hopes that they could prevent the babies from inheriting rare…
, which women with problems linked to mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a cell’s nucleus, from passing defects on to their offspring.
Scientists hope that such a procedure would help people prevent passing genetic defects onto their children. When conducting the procedure on women with faulty mitochondria, scientists take genetic material from their egg or embryo and transfer it to a donor egg or embryo that has healthy mitochondria but has had the rest of its key DNA removed.
“Mitochondrial donation treatment offers families with severe inherited mitochondrial illness the possibility of a healthy child,” the regulator said in a statement.
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