The team used an egg from the infertile mother, the father's sperm and another woman's egg to conceive the baby boy.
The case is the first time an IVF technique using DNA from three people has been deployed to allow a mother otherwise unable to conceive to have a child. Picture: AFP / File / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
The team used an egg from the infertile mother, the father’s sperm and another woman’s egg to conceive the baby boy, transferring genetic material with chromosomes from the mother to the egg of a donor whose own genetic material had been removed in a process its creators hailed as a medical “revolution”.
The baby, born Thursday and weighing in at 2.96 kilos , was delivered by a 32-year-old Greek woman who had undergone several unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilisation, Greece’s Institute of Life said in a statement. Dr Psathas added: “Our commitment is to continue to help even more couples facing fertility issues to have children with their own DNA, without having recourse to egg donors.”“The completely successful and safe implementation of the Maternal Spindle Transfer method -– for the first time in medical history -– is a revolution in assisted reproduction,” Dr Costa-Borges said.
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