Doctors have been given permission to create the UK's first "three-parent" or "three-person" babies to mitigate the risk of inheritable mitochondrial diseases:
Doctors have received permission to create the UK's first "three-person" babies for two women at risk of passing inheritable diseases to their children.
The two cases involve women who have mitochondrial diseases, which are passed down by the mother and can prove fatal.
Three-person babies involve an advanced form of IVF that uses a donor egg, the mother's egg and the father's sperm.
Doctors at the Newcastle Fertility Centre will carry out the procedure.
The decision was approved by the UK Fertility Regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
Also at New Scientist.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:35AM (1 child)
This may be for a different disease, but IIRC Britain had approved a 3-person baby process around a year ago to treat some sort of mitochondria disease.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:11AM
That wasn't a blanket approval - each case has still to be argued on its own merit, if I understand things correctly.
In this case, 2 additional treatments have been approved.