Medical scientists have developed a controversial IVF technique
that could cure deadly genetic diseases. This is incredible and
scary at the same time! Doctors in the reproductive medicine
department at Newcastle University in the UK have asked an
expert panel from the Human Fertilization and Embryology
Authority to review a new fertility treatment that could prevent
the some genetic diseases. The technique would involve not two,
but technically THREE biological parents. Around one in 6,500
children are born with serious diseases caused by faulty
mitochondrial DNA, including liver and heart failure and
neurological disorders. This new in-vitro treatment would use a
“second mother” in order to cancel out the mitochondrial DNA
that would lead to these genetic diseases. This “bad”
mitochondrial DNA is passed on exclusively by the mother and
located in every human cell. Mitochondria act as the “power
houses” and provide energy for each cell. Mitochondrial DNA is
not located in the nucleus of fertilized eggs, so d