Health & Medicine

After years of unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization, a healthy baby girl was born to an infertile Ukrainian couple using DNA from three people.
The procedure has been used before to treat mothers whose mitochondrial DNA is unhealthy, and would have otherwise resulted in children with genetic disorders.

A Baby With Three Parents Was Just Born

Could three parents or more become a standard?

Clinics in the UK can now offer patients mitochondrial donation, a treatment that uses DNA from a third person to help women with mitochondrial diseases give birth to healthy babies.
Despite criticism that mitochondrial donation will one day lead to "designer babies," the only certainty is that it can help patients right now overcome a problem with no other solution.

U.K. Approves Fertilization Treatment Using DNA From Multiple People to Make Babies

Approval will help families give birth to healthy, genetically related children.

Enhanced Humans

A successful mitochondrial donation procedure has resulted in a healthy baby born with DNA from three people.
At least one in 40,000 newborns are born with the severe neurological disorder carried by the boy's mother.

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A Baby With Three Parents Was Just Born

U.K. Approves Fertilization Treatment Using DNA From Multiple People to Make Babies

Baby With DNA From Three People Born Using First-Of-Its-Kind Fertilization Method

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