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A baby has been born using three people's DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed.

Most of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman.

The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases.

Fewer than five such babies have been born, but no further details have been released.

Mitochondrial diseases are incurable and can be fatal within days or even hours of birth. Some families have lost multiple children and this technique is seen as the only option for them to have a healthy child of their own.

Mitochondria are the tiny compartments inside nearly every cell of the body that convert food into useable energy.

Defective mitochondria fail to fuel the body and lead to brain damage, muscle wasting, heart failure and blindness.

UK's first 'three-person babies' approved
They are ed down only by the mother. So mitochondrial donation treatment is a modified form of IVF that uses mitochondria from a healthy donor egg.

There are two techniques for performing mitochondrial donation. One takes places after the mother's egg has been fertilised by the father's sperm and the other takes place before fertilisation.

However, mitochondria have their own genetic information or DNA which means that technically the resulting children inherit DNA from their parents and a smidge from the donor as well. This is a permanent change that would be ed down through the generations.

This donor DNA is only relevant for making effective mitochondria, does not affect other traits such as appearance and does not constitute a "third parent".

The technique was pioneered in Newcastle and laws were introduced to allow the creation of such babies in the UK in 2015.

However, the UK did not immediately press ahead. The first baby born via this technique was to a Jordanian family having treatment in the US in 2016.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (the HFEA) is saying "less than five" babies have been born as of 20 April 2023. It is not giving precise numbers to prevent the families being identified.

These limited details have emerged after a Freedom of Information request by the Guardian newspaper.

"News that a small number of babies with donated mitochondria have now been born in the UK is the next step, in what will probably remain a slow and cautious process of assessing and refining mitochondrial donation," said Sarah Norcross, the director of the Progress Educational Trust.

There has been no word from the teams in Newcastle so it is still uncertain whether the technique was successful.

Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Francis Crick Research Institute, said: "It will be interesting to know how well the mitochondrial replacement therapy technique worked at a practical level, whether the babies are free of mitochondrial disease, and whether there is any risk of them developing problems later in life."

There is technically a risk of "reversion" where any defective mitochondria that are carried over could gain in number and still result in disease.

It had once been estimated that up to 150 such babies could eventually be born each year in the UK.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65538866

Designer babies.
Very soon they will be able to make babies without any physical defect. Like for example if you want blue eyes on a black kid, or a super brain or if you don't want him to be ever interested in penis enlargement. Like there's almost nothing. Very soon, they will give expectant parents a catalogue to choose what they want and don't want from their child.

These people want to become like God, is it possible Nlfpmod!

the beginning of the end...

Damnnn niggar


When a real niggar is about to heave a sigh of relief thinking he has heard and seen enough in this gadamnnn world then boom another shit pops up

So how the baby got the DNA of donor then?

End time

We yaf hear

Wahala Wahala

The first day I stated on this forum that I'll marry a virgin so that my children will not be produced with remnants of notorious semen deposited in a promiscuous coochie, everyone called me a fool.

Marry a virgin to avoid offspring that share Spiritual DNA with a kidnapper , fraudster or terrorist.

Yeah, I get it that's not what the article says. It's possible via IVF.

But marry a virgin for your own good. If she fit hold body for this era, she's a keeper!

MrBrownJay1:
the beginning of the end...

of your end rather

Damnnn niggar
When a real niggar is about to heave a sigh of relief thinking he has heard and seen enough in this gadamnnn world then boom another shit pops up

J

If to say a Nigeria, e for sure me say na bini girl!! For this Benin so, girl fit born twin , make pikin b two different men own!!

Hmmmm, eleyi gidi gan

But I heard Ghana people do this. When 2 black Ghanaians want a mixed race baby, they use a Caucasian dna into the mix to create fair skinned babies.

The

Wahalicious...... Wahala wahala wahala

These Oyinbo people be remixing humans like broiler chicks or Hybrid Corn


Make them no sha go mistakenly mix another Hitler that will come and finish what the earlier one couldn't.

OneCandleAway:
But I heard Ghana people do this. When 2 black Ghanaians want a mixed race baby, they use a Caucasian dna into the mix to create fair skinned babies.

The real Ghana Jolof


Even though this is my first time of hearing of such a saga ... This lie the "I will lead from za front" fabu made by a certain Head of State

K

Hmmmm

that's a balablue

Mr. Righteousness, what do you think?

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Was telling a friend about this kind of stuff, genesis of this problem is the fact that when 2 unhealthy people come together, their kids will have one medical condition or the other, if u are a healthy person and ur spouse be person wey dey always sick or have one medical condition or the other is better to call it off to avoid transferring sickness to your offering cause the illness might b stronger than what ur partner has or even come in another different dimension

That’s why man is intelligent.
According to fanatics it’s a sign of end time but what your religious leaders won’t tell you is that you are God and God is inside you.
The power of creation lies in you only if you can dedicated yourself to it, ANYTHING is possible.

When you thought you have seen it all

the rebirth of chucky

N3TRAL:
The first day I stated on this forum that I'll marry a virgin so that my children will not be produced with remnants of notorious semen deposited in a promiscuous coochie, everyone called me a fool.

Marry a virgin to avoid a offspring that shares DNA with a kidnapper , fraudster or terrorist.

Yeah, I get it that's not what the article says.

But marry a virgin for your own good.

I don't blame those calling you names; especially, if you are not a virgin.
I don't understand the selfishness in some men, how can mess around with ppl's daughter and then determine to marry a virgin later in life? Well, I trust Karma, e no dey carry last.
May u find a virgin if you are one.