00:00It is a risk reduction strategy. It's very early days. This has been one study and eight babies
00:08have been born and that is a remarkable step forward for the whole field, most importantly
00:13for all of the families out there who have mitochondrial genetic disease. The technique
00:19itself, it's a fairly complex procedure that takes place in an IVF lab where you have a donor
00:26egg with really healthy mitochondria from someone who's donated their eggs and that's a really
00:31important part of this step. Then you have an egg from the mum who has mitochondrial genetic
00:37disease. Take the nuclear DNA from the egg with affected mitochondria and transfer that
00:43nuclear DNA, the DNA that makes us who we are, into the egg with the healthy mitochondria.
00:49So that's how you do it in a lab and members of the team in the UK have been fantastic in
00:54pioneering this technique and moving it from what was a research environment into a clinical
01:01environment and they've really, what they've done in this study has been really remarkable
01:06for the future of genetic disease. There's a really active community that we're waiting
01:12for this in Australia and we're doing our best to get it introduced for them as quickly as
01:17possible so there's quite a few in the, you're waiting for something to be available for them.
