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How can a baby have 3 parents?

  • Written by Jennifer Barfield, Assistant Professor, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Colorado State University
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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