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

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

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