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UK became the first country to have officially approved procedures to create “three-parent” babies. What exactly is the "three parent child"? 1-Mitochondrial Replacement therapy (MRT) is used to replace mother’s faulty Mitochondrial DNA with healthy Mitochondria from a donor woman during IVF process, thus the name- “three-parent” baby.(Mitochondria is a cell organel found inside a living cell..it is the power house of cell as it produces ATP out of the food we consume).. 2-The donor’s mitochondria contribute just 37 genes to the child, compared with more than 20,000 from the parents. That is a negligible amount and far less than one would gain from a blood transfusion or organ transplant. 3-No other characteristics in terms of intelligence, eye colour, hair colour, height etc. are changed. About Mitochondrial Disease... 1-The mitochondria are organelles inside cells that are involved in releasing energy by producing adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the key energy c...

U.S Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approved a 'Yescarta therapy' to treat adults with certain types of large B-Cell lymphoma (blood cancer).Yescarta uses CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) Tcell therapy for treatment. About Yescarta therapy 1- It is a type of gene therapy that turns cells in the patient’s body into a “living drug” that targets and kills cancer cells. 2- It has been given Orphan Drug Designation, under which it will be provided with financial incentives to encourage the development of drugs. Living drugs... Genetically modified cells are that are infused back into patients in CAR T-cell therapy, continue multiplying to fight disease for months or years. That’s why these immunotherapy treatments are called “living drugs.” Orphan Drug... A biological product or medicine that is intended to treat diseases so rare that sponsors are reluctant to develop them under usual marketing conditions. According to WHO, disease having fewer than 100 patients pe...