02-02-2018 12:23 via 10tv.com

UK allows doctors to make babies with DNA from 3 people

LONDON- Britain's fertility authority says it has granted permission to doctors at clinic in northeastern England to create babies from the DNA of three people, to help prevent two women from passing on fatal, genetic diseases to their children.It is the first such approval for the U.K. but the technique has already previously been used: a baby was born in Mexico in 2016 using the experimental therapy.The treatment fixes problems linked to mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a
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