• moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub
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    3 days ago

    Misleading title. The technique does not prevent all hereditary disease.

    DNA from both parents can be injected into a donor egg, which uses the donor’s mitochondria. This is used to keep a child from inheriting a mitochondrial disease from the mother. These are the specific set of hereditary diseases this technique prevents.

    All other hereditary diseases are not prevented by this.