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Lawmakers in U.K. have voted to allow doctors to create babies from DNA of three different people. It will be first country in the world to do this. There was vote in Britain's parliament, where 382 lawmakers voted for allowing three-person babies and 128 voted against idea. The idea behind three-person babies is to stop diseases being passed from mother to her newborn baby. Doctors say that as many as 150 babies year could be born using new technique. first baby to be born using the DNA from three people could be as early as next year. technique will help families with mitochondrial diseases. These are incurable and affect about one in 6,500 children worldwide.

technique is quite simple. It combines the DNA of two parents with DNA of another woman. Doctors replace unhealthy, disease-carrying DNA in mother's egg with healthy DNA from the donor. result is that the baby receives about 0.1 per cent of its DNA from the donor woman. Lawmakers said the technique was "light at the end of dark tunnel" for many families. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We're not playing God here. We're just making sure that two parents who want healthy baby can have one." Critics say the technique could be dangerous. They say it would open the door to genetic modification of children and "designer babies" in future.

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