The creation of genetically-modified children ‘reduces the gift of life to technical manipulation’, the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has said.
A new In vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure aiming to avoid inheriting incurable mitochondrial diseases in children has helped birth a baby with DNA from three people.
To prevent babies from inheriting rare, potentially fatal diseases, a variation of in vitro fertilization (IVF) uses genetic material from three people.