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. The baby boy was born five months ago in Mexico to Jordanian parents, and is healthy and doing well, said the report in New Scientist magazine, described as an “exclusive”. “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.

Source: Hindustan Times September 27, 2016 18:33 UTC