Mum who misplaced child daughter to mitochondrial illness ‘overjoyed’ at success of ‘three-person’ IVF

When Liz Curtis misplaced her third little one, a daughter Lily, to mitochondrial illness, there was a scarcity of help for these impacted by the inherited situation that impacts 1 in 5,000 births within the UK.

She arrange the Lily Foundation, which has raised greater than £11m to help households and fund analysis into the "devastating, progressive, degenerative disease" for which there isn’t any treatment.

Ms Curtis informed Sky News she was "overjoyed" at information that eight wholesome infants have been born following a pioneering IVF method utilizing the DNA from three individuals.

Read extra: https://news.sky.com/story/babies-born-in-uk-with-dna-from-three-people-to-treat-inherited-disease-takes-medicine-into-uncharted-territory-13397706

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