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The U.K. will soon allow to create babies from the of three different people. It will be the country to do this. British lawmakers voted 382-128 for the . Doctors say three-person babies will stop diseases passing from a to her newborn . As many as 150 babies a year could be born the new technique. The first baby to be born using the DNA from people could be born year. The technique will help prevent an incurable disease that affects about one in 6,500 children .

The technique is . It combines the parents' DNA with the DNA of a donor who does not have the disease. Doctors replace the DNA in the mother's with healthy DNA from the donor. The baby receives about 0.1 per cent of its DNA from the . Lawmakers said this was " at the end of a dark tunnel" for many . Britain's Prime Minister 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 lead to the genetic modification of children and " babies".

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