According to an exclusive report in New Scientist, a breakthrough birth occurred under the radar some five months ago. This Jordanian newborn represents the first successful birth in a new wave of “three parent” techniques — ones that are more sophisticated, and that will likely stick around much longer. For now, there is no country where the method used to conceive the baby boy is explicitly legal. Zhang performed the procedure in Mexico, where, he told New Scientist, “there are no rules.”These techniques involve the transfer of mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA. In this case, the couple had experienced four miscarriages and lost two children at young ages to Leigh syndrome, a neurological disorder caused by a mutation in the mother’s mitochondrial DNA.

Source: thestar September 27, 2016 19:18 UTC