The Times reported that doctors at the Nadia Clinic in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, helped the couple have a successful fertility through a "pronuclear transplant" method. Born on January 5, the baby is the second "3-parents" in the world.
Unlike the world's first "three-parent baby", this time scientists used the prokaryotic transplantation method for the first time.
The so-called "three-parent baby" is a technique that replaces the mother's unhealthy mitochondria with the normal mitochondria of another egg donor, which is equivalent to putting together the cells of the mother, father and donor, and the donor's genes account for only a small part.
The couple treated with the technique at nadia clinic suffered only from infertility and did not carry mitochondrial disease. Valery Zukin, who leads the treatment effort, predicts that the technology will bring good news to couples who cannot have offspring through routine IVF.
But the new technology is also fraught with controversy while giving hope to infertile couples, raising ethical questions such as how a "three-parent baby" would perceive the genes of three people.
