Through this technique, doctors ensured that newborns did not inherit genetic diseases. The world's first baby fertilized with this technique was born in the United States in 2016.
Britain in 2015 became the first country to pass legislation regulating mechanisms to help prevent women with defective mitochondria from passing defects to their babies. About one in 200 children in Britain is born with a mitochondrial disorder. To date, 32 patients have been authorized to receive such treatment. American doctors were the first to announce the birth of the mitochondria donation treatment was performed in Mexico.