Baby born using three people’s DNA

A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in the UK, said the fertility regulator. Most of the baby’s DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman. To prevent inherited disease, doctors created a “three-parent baby” by using a pioneering technique known as mitochondrial donation treatment. The world’s first baby created from DNA from three parents was born in Mexico in 2016, reported Sky News.

Children’s author charged with murder

A mother of three from the US who wrote a children’s book about dealing with grief has been charged with murdering her husband after allegedly spiking his drink with a synthetic opioid. Kouri Richins, 33, called the police after finding Eric Richins, 39, “cold to the touch” at their Utah home. A medical examiner found five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system and the victim had allegedly told a friend he suspected his wife was trying to poison him a month before he died.

‘Meteorite’ hits US home

The week “started with a bang” for a homeowner in New Jersey after a suspected meteorite “blasted a hole through a house early Monday afternoon”, said UPI. After a metallic rock fell out of the sky and hit a house in New Jersey, police responded and confirmed that the oblong-shaped rock damaged the building. According to the American Meteor Society, meteorites may be warm when they hit the Earth, but “probably reach the ground at only slightly above ambient temperature”.

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