Babies from three people's DNA prevents [a] heriditary disease (www.bbc.com)
from baatliwala@lemmy.world to science@mander.xyz on 17 Jul 09:30
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acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 17 Jul 11:10 next collapse

They use an egg of a donor, which is stripped of the nucleus, and inject the nucleus of the mother there to conduct IVF. The goal is to use the donor’s mitochondria and avoid a mitochondrial DNA genetic disease to be inherited from the mom.

So the title is technically correct, in a clickbaity sort of way.

baduhai@sopuli.xyz on 17 Jul 13:10 collapse

So the egg is from person A, the nucleus from person B, and I’m guessing the sperm would be person C?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 17 Jul 13:14 collapse

Aye.

Tronn4@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 15:54 collapse

Gangbangs confirmed for IVF