By Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:01 GMT, 25 January 2019 | Updated: 15:02 GMT, 25 January 2019
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An infertile woman is 27 weeks pregnant with a 'three-parent baby' in the first ever clinical trial to test the controversial procedure.
The 32-year-old Greek woman had four failed IVF attempts before she heard about the trial by Spanish doctors.
The Barcelona-based team used a technique called maternal spindle transfer (MST) to put DNA from one of her eggs into a donor's egg before it was fertilized with sperm.
Experts say, 'if true', the move - the third time MRT has produced a pregnancy - could be 'really big news in terms of reproductive medicine and biotechnology'.
But a University of Oxford ethics professor warned it raises questions about toying with genes for something as common as infertility rather than to treat genetic disorders.
The 32-year-old Greek woman had four failed IVF attempts before hearing about the trial in Spain. Experts warn it raises questions about using the technique for fertility rather than disease
'The main ethical issue (or one of the main
