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The first baby with three biological parents could be conceived next year after the Government announced a major review of Britain’s fertility laws.
The move would allow doctors to use a revolutionary IVF technique that prevents incurable, deadly genetic illnesses being passed down from mothers to their children.
Babies created with the therapy – called three-parent IVF – would inherit 98 per cent of their DNA from their ‘real’ parents. The rest would come from a female donor.
The scientists say the donor genes would not alter the children’s appearance or personality, but would stop them dying from painful diseases of the heart, liver and brain.
But the revelation has horrified embryo campaigners who accused doctors of ‘meddling around with the delicate building blocks of life’.
It also raises questions about parental rights and whether the donor parent would have any say in the upbringing of a child.
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The move would allow doctors to use a revolutionary IVF technique that prevents incurable, deadly genetic illnesses being passed down from mothers to their children.
Babies created with the therapy – called three-parent IVF – would inherit 98 per cent of their DNA from their ‘real’ parents. The rest would come from a female donor.
The scientists say the donor genes would not alter the children’s appearance or personality, but would stop them dying from painful diseases of the heart, liver and brain.
But the revelation has horrified embryo campaigners who accused doctors of ‘meddling around with the delicate building blocks of life’.
It also raises questions about parental rights and whether the donor parent would have any say in the upbringing of a child.
More...
* Couple who lost six babies to genetic disease suffer devastating blow when their only surviving son dies, aged 21
* Heartbreak for new mother whose twins died just...