Three-person IVF baby for infertile couple
by Michelle Roberts, BBC:
A baby has been born to a previously infertile couple in Ukraine using a new type of “three-person IVF”.
The Times reports that doctors in Kiev used a method called pronuclear transfer in what is a world first.
It is not the first baby born with DNA from three parents, however.
The baby girl, born on 5 January, is thought to be the world’s second “modern three-parent baby” – another child was created using a slightly different method in Mexico last year.
The Kiev team fertilised the mother’s egg with her partner’s sperm. They then transferred the combined genes into an egg taken from a donor.
The child has the genetic identity of the parents, alongside a tiny amount of DNA from the second woman.
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