The most astonishing gene therapy news this year has been the crafting of three-parent babies. The in-vitro fertilization practice, known as “mitochondrial replacement therapy,” is meant to help women who carry genes for mitochondrial diseases have babies without passing the disorders onto their children.
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I’m all for gene therapy—within proper scientific and ethical constraints….
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