Couple becomes parents with technique pioneered 20 years ago
US ban on mitochondrial transfers led to scientist abandoning his work; couple had procedure done in Mexico
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A few months ago, after a fertility procedure at a Mexican clinic, a healthy baby boy was born in New York to a couple from Jordan. It was the first live birth of a child that has been called - to the dismay of scientists who say the term is grossly misleading - a three-parent baby.
Richard J Paulson, president-elect of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said soon after the birth was reported on Tuesday by New Scientist magazine: "This is huge."
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