In Greece, a baby is born with genetic material of three people

Thanks to technological progress, the horizons of science are expanding. On this occasion, Greek and Spanish doctors claimed to have made "the history of medicine" after create (and bring to the world) a baby from the genetic material of three people.

This was possible thanks to a experimental fertilization technique in vitro who uses an egg from the mother, another from a donor and the father's sperm. However, the embryo is not created with two female cells but the mother removes only the nucleus that is placed in the donor's place.

Why would it be useful? According to the statement issued by the Institute of Life of Athens (Greece), the procedure is a means of avoid mitochondrial fatal diseaseswho are transferred from mother to son. In this case, it was applied to a sterile 32-year-old woman who had already undergone four badisted fertilization processes without success.

"We have realized the inalienable right of a woman to become a mother with her own genetic material.We are very proud to announce a innovation in badisted procreation and we can now allow women with multiple fertility or rare genetic mitochondrial diseases to have a healthy child, "said Dr. Panagiotis Psathas, president of the institution. 2.9 kg and both are in good health.

This has an antecedent in Jordan, where they tried to practice on a woman, although the case caused a lot of controversy. It is that, according to the BBC, some fertility doctors consider that Reproductive care and disease prevention are two morally different applications, while the scope of the technique is still unknown. It should be noted that in 2018, English doctors were given permission to create the first three-person babies in the UK.

For the moment, in Greece There are already 24 women following the same process that this patient can have children created from the genetic material of three people.