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First UK baby born with DNA from three people: what happens next?
Science Weekly
The Benefits of MDT
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The UK isn't the first country to create babies using MDT. In 2016, a US doctor announced the world's first MDT birth. This technique is being used to prevent harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA. The vast majority of our DNA resides in the nucleus but there's a tiny bit that resides in somewhere else - called mitochondria.
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