In the UK, eight children were successfully born through mitochondrial donation that prevents the inheritance of deadly conditions from the mother by IVF that involves three people.
Mitochondrial donation involves the transfer of the nucleus of a fertilized egg with faulty mitochondria into a donor egg cell with healthy mitochondria. Thus, three people are involved in this controversial yet promising method of mitochondrial disease prevention.
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