Genetic Details of Controversial "3-Parent Baby" Revealed
The child's parents have decided to forgo long-term monitoring by researchers
By Sara Reardon, Nature magazine on April 3, 2017
When a US fertility clinic revealed last year that it had created a baby boy using a controversial technique that mixes DNA from three people, scientists were quick to raise the alarm. Some objected on ethical grounds, and others questioned the scientific claims made by the clinic’s leader, physician John Zhang.
Now, after months of intense debate and speculation, Zhang’s team has provided more details about the child’s conception, in a paper published on 3 April in Reproductive Biomedicine Online. But major questions remain about the long-term health of the boy, and whether the experiment will ultimately advance reproductive medicine.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-details-of-controversial-3-parent-baby-revealed/
