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common_sensei t1_j71ja1p wrote

A human version of sort of the same technique is used to make three-parent babies: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21761

This avoids mitochondrial diseases by transferring a nucleus from a fertilized egg to a donor fertilized egg that had the nucleus removed. The baby ends up with the nuclear DNA of its biological parents but the mitochondrial DNA from the donor, hence three parents.

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