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Misleading title. The technique does not prevent all hereditary disease.
DNA from both parents can be injected into a donor egg, which uses the donor’s mitochondria. This is used to keep a child from inheriting a mitochondrial disease from the mother. These are the specific set of hereditary diseases this technique prevents.
All other hereditary diseases are not prevented by this.
Ah the power house of the cell.