Three-Parent Baby Shows No Limits to Science Hubris

Fertility doctors have brought a baby to birth from an embryo created artificially with the biological substances of two women and one man.

That could be illegal in many places, so the American doctors went to Mexico to do the procedure. From the Science story:

[Dr. John Zhang of New Hope Fertility Center in New York] reportedly used an approach called spindle nuclear transfer to create five human embryos. The method involves removing the nucleus -- the bulk of a cell's DNA -- from one of t...