Licence granted to first three-person baby in UK

Newcastle gets green light to use groundbreaking technology that can eliminate genetic disease

Newborn babies at hospital
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A fertility clinic has become the first in the UK to be granted a licence to use a controversial DNA replacement treatment that results in 'three-parent babies'.

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