Britain’s fertility regulator last Wednesday confirmed the births of the UK’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. Know more:
LONDON—Britain’s fertility regulator last Wednesday confirmed the births of the UK’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases.
The genetic defects can result in diseases—such as muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, heart problems and intellectual disabilities. The fertilized embryo is then transferred into the womb of the mother. The genetic material from the donated egg comprises less than 1 percent of the child created from this technique.
Britain requires every woman undergoing the treatment to receive approval from the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority. The regulator says that to be eligible, families must have no other available options for avoiding passing on genetic disease. Robin Lovell-Badge, a stem cell expert at the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research center in London, said it would be critical to monitor the babies’ future development.
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