General Article Mitochondrial donation

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Mitochondrial donation is an IVF technique that gives families affected by mitochondrial disease the chance of having healthy children.

It involves taking the DNA out of a woman’s egg that has faulty mitochondria (the ‘batteries’ that give all our cells their energy), and transferring it to a donor egg with healthy mitochondria. 

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