‘3-parent’ baby is a historic 1st

THE FIRST baby born from a technique combining genetic material from three different people has survived his first five months.

Abrahim Hassan came as the result of a “revolutionary” procedure aimed at avoiding genes for a nervous system disease carried in his mother’s DNA, and was first reported in the New Scientist.

Abrahim was born in April after a nucleus from one of his Jordanian mother’s eggs replaced the nucleus in the donor’s egg, which was then fertilized with his father’s sperm and implanted in his mother. The procedure is banned in the U.S., and was performed by a U.S. team led by Dr. John Zhang (photo inset with baby) in Mexico.