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A bill before parliament would legalise the process that uses a donor egg so carriers of mito can reduce the risk when starting a family
My brother Michael was born in April 1998. He didn’t live long enough for me to meet him. “When he was born, he wasn’t putting on any weight,” my mother tells me. “We kept persevering with breastfeeding, and tried formulas. But nothing was working.” At two months old, they took him to be immunised. “I remember looking around at other babies in the waiting room. They were all the same age as him, but much bigger. He was still fitting into the...