Plus: the politics of Akshata Murty’s style and Britain’s 30 greatest villages untouched by mass tourism
 |  | | This past week, a special group of babies were delivered at the world-leading Newcastle Fertility Centre. What makes them so noteworthy? Well, they have an unprecedented number of biological parents. Aiming to battle mitochondrial disease, the team at Newcastle used the fertilised nucleus of a mother’s egg, and placed it in a donor’s egg from which the nucleus had been removed to create these “three-parent babies”.
Though this potentially life-saving gene editing has the potential to eradicate entire diseases, it is highly controversial. Harry de Quetteville has the full story.
Elsewhere, we decode the politics of “First Lady” Akshata Murty’s style, and if you’re looking to escape the crowds, the travel team recommends 30 of Britain’s greatest villages.
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