The world’s first “three-person” IVF baby has been born in a Mexican fertility clinic in what scientists hailed as the dawn of a new era. The baby boy, who has his mother’s genes with a tiny smattering of extra DNA from a second woman, was delivered five months ago. His birth is the first to come about through a new method called mitochondrial transfer, where the mother’s egg is fertilised with the father’s sperm but then injected into the shell of another woman’s egg in an attempt to root out inherited diseases. Last year Britain became the only country to…

Source: The Times September 27, 2016 16:01 UTC