When Poppy was born, doctors told her mother Kat there was no cure for mitochondrial disease. Now 14, Poppy uses a wheelchair, cannot speak, and relies on tube feeding. But for families like the Kittos, eight healthy babies born in the UK represent a turning point in preventing one of medicine’s most cruel genetic conditions. Published findings in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm that eight children—four boys and four girls, including twins—have been born free of mitochondrial disease using pronuclear transfer, a technique that combines DNA from three people. All eight children were healthy at birth, meeting their … Continue reading Eight Healthy Babies Born Using Three-Person DNA: UK Mitochondrial Replacement Breakthrough