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The world's first baby using a controversial new technique employed by US scientists to include DNA from three parents in the embryo has been born.

According to the New Scientist reports, the baby boy was born five months ago in Mexico to Jordanian parents, and is healthy and doing well.

The boy’s mother carries genes for Leigh syndrome, a fatal disorder that affects the developing nervous system. Genes for the disease reside in DNA in the mitochondria, which provide energy for our cells and carry just 37 genes that are passed down to us from our mothers.

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The controversial technique, which allows parents with rare genetic mutations to have healthy babies, has only been legally approved in the UK. Experts say the move heralds a new era in medicine and could help other families with rare genetic conditions.

Zhang’s team used this approach to create five embryos, only one of which developed normally. This embryo was implanted in the mother and the child was born nine months later. “It’s exciting news,” says Bert Smeets at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.