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Three is company!

Three is company!  the first genetically altered human babies have been born and are healthy, claim researchers in the us . These babies have dna (deoxyribonucleic acid) of three parents, instead of two. The children were born to infertile mothers who were treated using a technique called ooplasmic transfer. This technique involves taking some of the contents of a donor cell and injecting it into the egg cell of an infertile woman. Jacques Cohen and Jason Barritt at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey, usa , used this technique to treat women who were unable to conceive because of defects in the cytoplasm of their eggs

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