The development of healthy monkeys from embryos in which the egg contains nuclear DNA from one donor and mitochondrial DNA from another suggests a method to prevent inheritance of certain human diseases.
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Shoubridge, E. Asexual healing. Nature 461, 354–355 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461354a
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