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The United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted on Feb. 3 to allow research on mitochondrial DNA replacement therapy that will replace mutated mitochondria from a mother’s egg cell with that of healthy donor. GRAPHIC BY ERICA MAYBAUM AND SHIVANI PATEL/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

To treat mitochondrial disease, mothers know best

Conner Reed February 12, 2015

If having a child meant hurting them, how far would people go to fix it? Science has known for a long time that everything a living being is boils down to long sequences encoded in DNA, passed down...

BUSM profs. see new growth in cell development

Daily Free Press Admin January 29, 2013

Boston University School of Medicine professors have discovered that tissues taken from specific cells were not rejected when transplanted into genetically identical recipients, according to a BUSM press...

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