British Scientists Gives Green Signal to the use of Three Parent Baby

British scientists on December 1, 2016, gave green signal to the use of “three-parent baby” fertility treatments, thus becoming the first in the world to officially introduce the procedures. The treatment will involve the embryo to receive the usual “nuclear” DNA from the mother and father, as well as a

small amount of healthy mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) from a female donor

Mitochondria are structures in cells which generate vital energy and contain their own set of genes called mDNA which is passed through the mother and can cause diseases ranging from poor vision to diabetes and muscle wasting.

iv. An independent panel of experts were tasked to review the safety of mitochondrial gene therapy who recommended that the practice should be “cautiously adopted” only in specific circumstances where inheritance is likely to cause death or serious disease and where there is no other alternatives.

The technique could enable women with mitochondrial disease  to have a healthy child, without the fear of passing on the disease to new born babies with conditions having multiple disabilities and indeed life-limiting impairments.

vi. However, David Clancy, from the faculty of health and medicine at the University of Lancaster, predicted the technique to be “currently imperfect” since one in 30 women who receive the treatment could still give birth to a child with an inherited disease.

First Country to use the Technique

♦ The first baby conceived using mitochondrial donation was born earlier in the year 2016 in Mexico, where there is no regulation on its use, but Britain would be the first to officially authorize it.

 first baby conceived using mitochondrial donation was born earlier in the year 2016 in Mexico, 

 Britain would be the first  use the Technique ,  “three-parent baby” officially introduce