RealFeedApp MRT reduces risk of inheriting fatal diseases
Emerging data from the U.K. and small pilot studies are raising doubts about the risks of mitochondrial replacement techniques despite successful births.
- Field
- medicine and diagnostics
- What they did
- Researchers in the UK used a three-parent IVF method to transfer healthy mitochondria from a donor into an egg from a woman with defective mitochondria, resulting in the birth of healthy children.
- Why it matters
- The method prevents the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases, but emerging data and pilot studies are raising questions about the technology's safety.
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