{"id":343041,"date":"2025-07-18T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343041"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:56:38","slug":"mitochondrial-donation-treatment-mdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mitochondrial-donation-treatment-mdt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitochondrial Donation Treatment (MDT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> At least eight babies have been born in the UK using DNA from three people, thanks to a groundbreaking fertility technique designed to stop the passing on of inherited genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<h2>About Mitochondrial Donation Treatment (MDT)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_343042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343042\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-343042\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=657%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=300%2C143&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?resize=768%2C366&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Source-The-Guardian.jpg?w=871&amp;ssl=1 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>form of IVF<\/strong> that <strong>replaces faulty mitochondrial DNA<\/strong> in the <strong>patient\u2019s eggs<\/strong> with healthy mitochondrial DNA from<strong> a donor egg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It helps in <strong>preventing serious and often fatal conditions<\/strong> linked to mitochondrial defects<\/li>\n<li><strong>Process<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mitochondria<\/strong> are tiny structures in cells that <strong>produce energy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>When they <strong>don\u2019t work properly<\/strong>, they can lead to <strong>severe conditions<\/strong> affecting the brain, muscles, heart and other organs.<\/li>\n<li>MDT works by <strong>removing the faulty mitochondria in a woman\u2019s egg<\/strong> and <strong>replacing<\/strong> them with <strong>healthy ones from a donor<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>mother\u2019s nuclear DNA<\/strong>, which makes up most of a person\u2019s genes, is <strong>kept intact<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>So, the <strong>baby inherits DNA from three people:<\/strong> the <strong>mother, the father, and the donor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>However, the <strong>donor&#8217;s contribution is less than 1%<\/strong> of the child\u2019s total genetic material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Note<\/em><\/strong>: The <strong>UK<\/strong> became the <strong>first country<\/strong> to approve the use of mitochondrial donation in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: At least eight babies have been born in the UK using DNA from three people, thanks to a groundbreaking fertility technique designed to stop the passing on of inherited genetic diseases. About Mitochondrial Donation Treatment (MDT) It is a form of IVF that replaces faulty mitochondrial DNA in the patient\u2019s eggs with healthy mitochondrial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mitochondrial-donation-treatment-mdt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitochondrial Donation Treatment (MDT)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-343041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}