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

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


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