Use of DNA from three parents in the embryo, a controversial novel
technique, has yielded the first baby in the world.
Born to Jordanian parents in Mexico five months ago, the baby is
reported to be healthy as per a report in the New Scientist magazine.
The three parent fertility method was approved due to frequent history
of miscarriage of the mother in addition to the mother hosting Leigh
Syndrome. Spindle nuclear transfer was taken up using the patient’s
nuclear DNA in combination with an egg donor’s mitochondria. The egg was
then thereafter fertilized with the father’s sperm.t
The three parent method has not been approved in the United states,
hence the birth was undertaken in Mexico.
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