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How a breakthrough IVF treatment eradicates a devastating illness | Sky News Breakfast

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Join the Sky News Breakfast team as eight babies have been born in the UK with DNA from three people following a procedure to eliminate an incurable inherited disease.

It is a major advance for the technique, called mitochondrial donation therapy, designed to prevent a life-limiting, often fatal illness caused by genetic mutations in the structures that generate energy in all our cells.

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