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Doctors in the UK report eight babies born healthy after IVF using DNA from three people, preventing mitochondrial diseases. The births, to seven women, include one set of twins. The technique, first approved in 2015, was detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine. None of the children show signs of the disorders they were at risk of inheriting.