Babies born with DNA from three people in the UK – to prevent ‘devastating’ illness with no cure

Eight babies have been born in the UK with DNA from three people following a procedure to eliminate an incurable inherited disease.

It is a major advance for the technique, called mitochondrial donation therapy, designed to prevent a life-limiting, often fatal illness caused by genetic mutations in the structures that generate energy in all our cells.
It is also a test of the UK’s permissive but highly regulated stance on human embryo research that allowed a technique once criticised…

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