17/7/2025–|Last update: 20:03 (Mecca time)
8 healthy children were born in the UK using a leading new technology For artificial vaccination It includes the use of DNA for 3 people in an experiment that is the first of its kind in the world.
The technique depends on the use of DNA from the mother’s egg, sperm from the father, and a small amount of a healthy donor egg, in order to avoid a group of genetic diseases known as mitochondria.
Mitochondria is the energy production site in the cell, and it has many metabolic mechanisms and quality monitoring mechanisms that are essential to maintain natural cellular activities, and the mitochondria children – next DNA of mitochondria – inherits from their mothers.
The history of mitochondria dates back to 1871 when Theodore Leber documented the genetic and moral optic nerve diseases.
Mitochondria diseases are caused by mutations in the genes of the DNA and the DNA of mitochondria that encrypt the mitochondria proteins participating in its function.
Mitochondria diseases are the most common group of genetic metabolism disorders, and one of the most common forms of genetic neurological disorders.
These genetic diseases, which affect one out of every 5,000 births and have no treatment, can cause serious symptoms such as visual loss and muscle wasting.
Long -awaited results
Experts from the University of Newcastle and Australian University of Monash published the results of the long -awaited experience on July 16 in several research papers in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The new procedure, which was approved in the United Kingdom in 2015, uses DNA from the mother’s egg, the father’s sperm, and a small amount of proper DNA of mitochondria from a donor egg, which led to the emergence of the term “triglycerides” controversial, although only about 0.1% of the child’s DNA comes from the donor.
22 women have undergone treatment at the Newcastle Fertility Center in northeastern England, and 8 children were born between the ages of four and the four girls now between less than 6 months and more than two years.
The amount of mitochondry DNA decreased by 95-100% in 6 children, and decreased by 77-88% and in the other two children, which is less than the boundary of the disease.
Children are currently healthy, and their health will continue to be monitored in the long run.
Despite this success, the procedure remains controversial and not approved in many countries, including the United States and France, and opponents refer to moral concerns, including the destruction of human embryos and fears of “designer children”.
While supporters believe that the benefits of this procedure are clear and change the lives of families facing destroyed mitochondria diseases.