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.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/babies-born-in-uk-with-dna-from-three-people-to-treat-inherited-disease-takes-medicine-into-uncharted-territory-13397706
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