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How can a baby have 3 parents?

  • Written by Jennifer Barfield, Assistant Professor, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Colorado State University
How can a baby have 3 parents?By Fakhrul Najmi

It seems impossible, right? We have been taught from the time we were young that babies are made when a sperm and an egg come together, and the DNA from these two cells combine to make a unique individual with half the DNA from the mother and half from the father. So how can there be a third person involved in this process?

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