A baby is born with genetic material of three people

April 13, 2019

The baby was born in Greece. It is an experimental in vitro fertilization technique that uses one egg from the mother, one from the donor and the father's sperm.

Fertility doctors in Greece and Spain they said that they are "Make a clinical story" after generating a baby from the genetic material of three people overcome the infertility of a woman.

This was possible thanks to a Experimental technique of in vitro fertilization using a mother egg, a donor egg and the father's sperm. But the embryo is not created with two female cells, but from the mother, only the nucleus is extracted, which is placed in place of the donor. The woman gave birth to a 2.9 kg baby and both are in good health.

He shared his pregnancy on YouTube and was quickly seen a million times.

The Athens Life Institute issued a statement in which he said that "The procedure is a way to avoid mitochondrial fatal diseases, who are transferred from mother to child. "In this case, it was applied to a 32-year-old barren woman who had already undergone four badisted fertilization processes without success," he added.

For its part, the President of the institution, Dr. Panagiotis PsathasHe said: "We realized the inalienable right of a woman to become a mother with her own genetic material. We are very proud to announce an innovation in the area of ​​badisted reproduction and we can now allow women with multiple unsuccessful fertilizations or rare genetic mitochondrial diseases to have a healthy child. "

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A similar case was held in Jordanwhere they tried to practice on a woman but the case caused a lot of controversy. On this occasion, some fertility doctors consider that reproductive care and disease prevention are two morally different applications, while the scope of the technique is still unknown. In 2018, English doctors were given permission to create the first babies of three people in the UK.

In Greece, 24 women follow the same process that this patient can have children created from the genetic material of three people.