Fertility specialist who created first three-parent baby
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Founder of New Hope Fertility Center, New York
For most of modern medicine's history, diseases caused by defective mitochondria — the structures inside cells that generate energy — have been essentially untreatable. Doctors could manage symptoms, but the broken power plants themselves were beyond reach. Now, within a six-month span, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first two drugs targeting mitochondrial diseases, and a Chinese research team has demonstrated a method to physically transplant healthy mitochondria into diseased cells with sixteen times the efficiency of previous approaches.
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