Eight children in the UK are reportedly living healthy lives due to mitochondrial donation, a reproductive technique that aims to prevent the inheritance of harmful mitochondrial DNA from mothers. This procedure transfers a nucleus from a fertilized egg with faulty mitochondria into a donor egg cell containing healthy mitochondria. Known as three-person IVF, it combines nuclear DNA from both parents and mitochondrial DNA from another donor. The UK regulated this technique in 2015 following extensive research, with only the Newcastle Fertility Centre licensed to perform it. A recent study confirmed eight births resulting from this method.
Mitochondrial donation aims to prevent babies inheriting harmful mutations from their mother's mitochondrial DNA, which can cause debilitating diseases affecting the heart, brain, and muscles.
Mitochondrial donation, dubbed three-person IVF, involves transferring the nucleus of a fertilized egg with faulty mitochondria into a donor egg cell with healthy mitochondria.
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