Doctors say that eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions.

The method, pioneered by UK scientists, combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg from a donor woman.

The technique has been legal here for a decade - but there is now proof it is leading to children born free of incurable mitochondrial disease.

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