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‘Three-parent IVF’ was supposed to prevent mitochondrial disease. Studies are raising doubts

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The news out of the U.K. last year that eight healthy children had been born to mothers carrying disease-causing mutations in their mitochondria showed the promise of a pioneering reproductive technique known as “three-parent IVF.” The long-anticipated results seemingly showed the procedure, formally called mitochondrial replacement techniques, or MRT, could reduce the risk of babies…