Genetic material from mother and father transferred to healthy donor egg to reduce risk of life-threatening diseases * ‘We’d never heard of it’: a woman tells of her daughter’s death of mitochondrial disease Doctors in the UK have announced the birth of eight healthy babies after performing a groundbreaking procedure that creates IVF embryos with DNA from three people to prevent the children from inheriting incurable genetic disorders. The mothers were all high risk for passing on life-threatening diseases to their babies due to mutations in their mitochondria, the tiny structures that sit inside cells and provide the power they need to function. Continue reading...

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Research Assistant (Fixed Term) in the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit at the University of Cambridge.

Thirty employees—including 11 lab heads—at the institute should “immediately return to work,” according to an email the institute’s Office of Human Resources sent to top administration at the…