Eight UK babies were born healthy using a three-parent technique that combines DNA from three people to prevent rare genetic ...

This method, called the three-parent DNA technique, is helping families have healthy babies by using a small amount of DNA from a third person. Let’s explore how this works and why it’s making ...

A groundbreaking IVF trial has raised hope that women with genetic mutations in their own DNA could one day have children ...

The genetic material from the donor makes up less than 1% of the baby born by using the experimental IVF technique.

The new method, which is illegal in the United States but approved in Britain since 2015, adds a tiny bit of healthy mitochondrial DNA from a donor’s egg to the mix, with more than 99% of the child’s ...

Ten years after the UK became the first country to legalize mitochondrial donation, the first results from the use of these ...

Children born through the three-person technique inherit most of their DNA, their genetic blueprint, from their parents, but ...

The news that eight babies with the DNA of three people have been born in the U K has been greeted by some as a great step in ...

A pioneering IVF technique combining DNA from three people to protect a baby from a rare genetic disease has been used in ...

Scientists at Newcastle University used a new IVF technique that combines a mother’s egg and father’s sperm with a second egg ...

The IVF technique uses DNA from the mother’s egg, the father’s sperm, and a small amount from a healthy donor’s egg.

It is a major advance for the technique, called mitochondrial donation therapy, designed to prevent a life-limiting, often ...