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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

KASTRITIS: Legalizing mitochondrial therapy is necessary to save lives

KASTRITIS: Legalizing mitochondrial therapy is necessary to save lives

Elias Kastritis October 6, 2016

The United States of America has enjoyed a long history of priding itself for its innovative technological and scientific domination. Indeed, the countless academic, scientific, industrial, mathematical,...

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...

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