The team used an egg from the infertile mother, the father's sperm and another woman's egg to conceive the baby boy, transferring genetic material with chromosomes from the mother to the egg of a donor whose own genetic material had been removed in a process its creators hailed as a medical "revolution".
The baby, born Thursday and weighing in at 2.96 kilograms , was delivered by a 32-year-old Greek woman who had undergone several unsuccessful attempts at in-vitroInstitute of Life president Dr. Panagiotis Psathas, stated: "Today, for the first time in the world, a woman's inalienable right to become a mother with her own genetic material became a reality.
"The completely successful and safe implementation of the Maternal Spindle Transfer method -- for the first time in medical history -- is a revolution in assisted reproduction," Dr. Costa-Borges said.
Incredibly selfish to make these frankenstein children without knowing the longterm effects of these genetic manipulations on the individual child and the future human gene pool.