Britain's fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the UK's first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases.
abc.net.au/news/babies-born-using-three-people-s-dna-in-uk-first/102330604Britain's fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the United Kingdom's first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said fewer than five babies have been born this way in the UK, but did not provide further details to protect the families' identities. The news was first reported by the Guardian newspaper. For a woman with faulty mitochondria, scientists take genetic material from her egg or embryo, which is then transferred into a donor egg or embryo that still has healthy mitochondria but had the rest of its key DNA removed.
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