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The UK is preparing to legalize IVF from three parents

Copper newsThe UK government plans to prepare a bill this autumn that will allow mixing the genes of three people during artificial insemination, writes The Guardian (Three-person IVF: UK government backs mitochondrial transfer).

This decision was made on the basis of data from the local Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which conducted public consultations on this issue, which started in September 2012 and ended in March this year. If the new law is adopted, the UK will become the first country in the world to legalize this procedure, and the first child from three parents will be able to be born in 2015.

The purpose of IVF from three parents is that in this way it is possible to modify the genes of the embryo in order to avoid the risks of serious diseases. First of all, this applies to mitochondrial diseases (associated with mitochondrial DNA defects transmitted only through the maternal line).

The experimental method, which is being developed in laboratories in the UK and the USA, consists in the removal of defective mitochondrial DNA from the mother's egg during in vitro fertilization, followed by the transfer of the fertilized nucleus to the non-nuclear egg of the donor woman.

The donor provides the future organism with its healthy mitochondria, which provide the cells with energy. Thus, a genetically modified embryo is obtained, possessing genes from three parents: mother, father and a female donor.

Consideration of this law is not only a medical issue, but also an ethical one, since as a result of such procedures, the genetic code transmitted to the next generations will change.

According to medical statistics, approximately one in five thousand women are carriers of defective mitochondrial DNA, which can cause incurable heart diseases, liver failure, brain development disorders, blindness, diabetes and muscular dystrophy in a child.

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