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Detailed explanation-1: -The licence, granted to a team of doctors in Newcastle, northern England, means the first child created in Britain using the mitochondrial pronuclear transfer technique could be born before the end of this year.

Detailed explanation-2: -LONDON: Britain today created history by becoming the first country to legalise children conceived with DNA from three parents after lawmakers voted in favour of the controversial procedure that sparked a fierce ethical debate with senior Church figures.

Detailed explanation-3: -Doctors have received permission to create the UK’s first “three-person” babies for two women at risk of passing inheritable diseases to their children. The two cases involve women who have mitochondrial diseases, which are passed down by the mother and can prove fatal.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first three-parent babies were born in the 1990s and early 2000s, the products of a then-novel IVF-based technique known as ooplasmic transfer (cytoplasmic transfer). The success of the technique was seen as miraculous, but its use was controversial.

Detailed explanation-5: -The six-pound boy, who the doctors say in a statement is healthy, was born using a technique called maternal spindle transfer. In the procedure, the grouped-together DNA from a mother’s egg was removed and placed inside a donor egg from another woman, which had been emptied of its DNA.