A baby has been given birth in the United Kingdom using three people’s DNA for the first time in the history of the world.
The report shows that just about 5 or fewer of these kinds of babies have been given birth in the UK though they weren’t disclosed.
However, further medical reports show that most of the babies’ DNA comes from their two major parents while 0.1%comes from the third donor woman.
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This is risky
Meanwhile, the reason for the medical operation is to prevent children from being born with a deadly disease known as mitochondrial disease.
This disease is said to be a rare but dangerous genetic disease passed down to the child only by the mother, hence mitochondrial donation treatment is considered as it is a modified form of IVF that uses mitochondria from a healthy donor egg.
Though many netizens weren’t satisfied with this development as they claimed that it can expose the baby to further diseases from the three parties involved.
Reactions: This is crazy
The post gathered lots of controversial reactions as many netizens see it as a way of going beyond nature. See reactions below:
@_iamtonyredd: Excuse me
@kizzy.patterson: Probably has superpowers
@naOmicreates: This is crazy
@ cartier.ki: So does the baby have 25% of each parent’s DNA?
@kiairajordan: God finna snatch y’all up
@she.is.stacy: Ah yes three sources of epigenetic trauma passing on instead of two. Awesome
@myamiamiprincesss: I learned this last summer In biology this been a thing!
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Nigerian doctor performs surgery on baby in the womb
Meanwhile, a U.S.-based Nigerian surgeon, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye attained an incredible feat in the medical sector in 2016 when he performed successful surgery on a fetus in-utero.
The fetus, who was 23 weeks old when she was operated upon, was diagnosed with sacrococcygeal teratoma.
In a YouTube video, the brilliant doctor gave a brief summary of his journey as a pediatric surgeon and an account of the successful surgery.
