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from the meet-my-parents,-all-of-them dept.
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 janrinok on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:18AM
I think that you are missing the point. This is a normal married couple, but the wife carries a inheritable disease which could be passed to her unborn child.
In all likelihood, the donor will remain anonymous.