Scientists can protect children from being born with certain devastating genetic disorders by creating “three-parent” babies, according to the results of a landmark study released Wednesday.
British researchers used the experimental technique to help families have eight children who appear healthy. They now range in age from younger than 6 months to older than 2 years.
The families have been plagued for generations by rare but often fatal inherited mitochondrial disorders, according to two papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
we just doing gene engineering whenever we want now huh
edit: (mitochondrial transplants in this case, doesn’t actually involve gene engineering)
Eight children each or eight in total?
I’m sure it’s the latter but I was confused at first and wanted to share my confusedness
