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According to the Cleveland Clinic, mitochondrial diseases are “a group of genetic conditions that affect how mitochondria in your cells produce energy.” They can cause developmental delays in children, profound muscle weakness, hearing loss, blindness, strokes, and heart failure. Those with the worst symptoms die earliest, often before the age of three. Now there’s a way to prevent the transmission of these diseases to the next generation with a new IVF procedure. The children produced in this way will avoid the mitochondrial diseases they would otherwise have inherited. What’s not to like…
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