According to US researchers, they have come up with a technique that could help treat people suffering from mitochondrial diseases from birth. The study has been published in the journal Nature. The study shows that it is possible to grow healthy cells from affected patients in the laboratory.

According to the team, treatments in future could make use of the healthy tissues in order to repair heart and other organs that get damaged. According to experts, the study was quite interesting and was properly executed, however they added that there is still a lot of work to be done in order to achieve a break-through.

As per reports, one in every 6,500 babies suffers from severe mitochondrial disease and such babies lack energy and this causes blindness, muscle weakness, heart failure and death. Mitochondria are the small compartments found in almost every cell of the body that help convert food into energy.

According to experts, defective mitochondria come into babies from the mother only. A decision has been made by the UK to permit the formation of "three-person babies" in order to prevent birth of children with the deadly disease.

According to one of the researchers, Prof Shoukhrat Mitalipov, "There is a long way to go - it's the same issue as in regenerative medicine. There has been considerable research into turning stem cells into the desired tissue type. Then the next step is to harvest and transplant them into a patient". He said it is needed to make sure they implant, integrate and function properly.