The world’s first baby has been born thanks to a controversial new technique employed by US scientists to include DNA from three parents in the embryo, said a report Tuesday. “He removed the nucleus from one of the mother’s eggs and inserted it into a donor egg that had had its own nucleus removed,” said the report. Attempts began in the 1990s to create a baby by injecting mitochondrial DNA from a donor into the mother’s egg, and adding sperm from her partner. “Some of the babies went on to develop genetic disorders, and the technique was banned,” said the New Scientist report. RELATED STORIESHelping couples realize their dream of parenthoodHow Joel Cruz planned his fatherhoodUK moves toward making babies from DNA of 3 people

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 28, 2016 03:11 UTC