{"id":218150,"date":"2025-07-17T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/8-babies-born-in-uk-using-radical-three-parent-ivf-technique"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:13:23","slug":"8-babies-born-in-uk-using-radical-three-parent-ivf-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/8-babies-born-in-uk-using-radical-three-parent-ivf-technique","title":{"rendered":"8 Babies Born in UK Using Radical \u2018Three Parent\u2019 IVF Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8-babies-born-in-uk-using-radical-three-parent-ivf-technique.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2415539\">the results of a world-first trial<\/a> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were hailed as a breakthrough which raises hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day have children without passing debilitating or deadly diseases on to the children.<\/p>\n<p>One out of every 5,000 births is affected by mitochondrial diseases, which cannot be treated, and include symptoms such as impaired vision, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a> and muscle wasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday. The findings were hailed as a breakthrough which raises hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}