Healthy babies born in Britain
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A cohort of eight babies at risk of inheriting mitochondrial disease were born without complications after British scientists used a pioneering IVF technique.
A UK team announced the births of eight babies born with DNA from three people. But around the world, others have already been born.
Eight babies have been born in the UK using mitochondrial donation therapy, a technique that prevents severe inherited mitochondrial diseases by combining DNA from three people.