I'll compose a longer post soon, but I just wanted to pop on here for a minute. I'm on my way to bed, and for some reason I just happened to turn on BBC World News America (which I never watch). They were running the following story about research on possibly preventing mitochondrial disease by doing a 3 parent IVF procedure:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8619533.stm
Obviously, this would only prevent mito if the cause was a (non-sporadic) mtDNA mutation. It's very interesting, but I am not sure how I feel about it. I was so shocked to see a news piece about mito that I totally burst into tears. But, it's also very late and I am very tired. Off to bed...
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