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8 babies born with DNA from 3 people in world-first IVF trial

8 babies born with DNA from 3 people in world-first IVF trial

Eight healthy babies have been born in the U.K. using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the people behind a world-first trial said Wednesday. The findings were hailed as a breakthrough, which raises hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day have children without passing debilitating …

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