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Three-person IVF 'is ethical' to treat mitochondrial disease
Source: BBC
12 June 2012 Last updated at 02:24 GMT
Three-person IVF 'is ethical' to treat mitochondrial disease
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News
A controversial fertility treatment which creates embryos from two women and one man to prevent life-threatening disorders is ethical, a report says.
Children born through "three-person IVF" would contain some genetic material from three people.
The UK's Nuffield Council on Bioethics said the technique could free children from "very severe and debilitating disorders".
Other groups said the procedure was unnecessary and dangerous.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18393682
