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Good news for these new parents. A baby has been conceived through a relatively new artificial insemination technique. According to the article, this is the first healthy birth using DNA from three parents.
The story about Leigh syndrome is a bit tragic, although I believe that's the reason for the donation of egg and sperm. One of the biological mothers' DNA was inserted into the egg. I wonder how many parents the boy will have in total, if only one out of the three biological parents will be responsible for his upbringing.
Baby Born Using "Three Parent" Technique, Doctors Say
The story about Leigh syndrome is a bit tragic, although I believe that's the reason for the donation of egg and sperm. One of the biological mothers' DNA was inserted into the egg. I wonder how many parents the boy will have in total, if only one out of the three biological parents will be responsible for his upbringing.
The National Academy of Medicine panel said these "three-parent" babies could be a way for people with a high risk of rare, devastating genetic diseases to have healthy children that are genetically their own, but said the Food and Drug Administration should carefully regulate such experiments.
And at first, the panel advised, only male embryos should be made this way until it's clear that dangerous mutations would not be passed down to future generations.
Baby Born Using "Three Parent" Technique, Doctors Say