The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle has seen ...

The UK has become the first country in the world to confirm the births of eight babies born as a result of Mitochondrial ...

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England (WKRC) - A new In vitro fertilization (IVF) technique using DNA from three parties helped eight ...

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

This groundbreaking technique aims to prevent children from inheriting severe, incurable mitochondrial diseases from their ...

Long-awaited results of a three-person IVF technique suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting ...

Eight babies have been born in the UK, who each have genetic material from three people, after an IVF procedure to prevent ...

It's very difficult for families to deal with these diseases, they are devastating, so to see babies born at the end of this ...

Eight children in the U.K. have been spared from devastating genetic diseases thanks to a new three-person in vitro ...

All mitochondrial donation treatment needs to be approved by the HFEA to ensure it is done in a legal and ethical way. – Does the mitochondrial donor have any rights over the child?

No, A woman who donates their eggs and/or embryos for use in mitochondrial donation treatment will not be the genetic parent of the child that is then born. This is because the mitochondria ...