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Run for the hills, the designer babies are coming!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:00 AM
Britian is only a "hop, skip, and a jump" away from the nightmare vision of social engineering portrayed in Aldous Huxley's science fiction classic "Brave New World", according to the chairman of the British Medical Association Welsh Council. As the UK government considers whether to lift the ban on gender selection for family balancing, Dr. Tony Calland warns... Read More...
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Miracle cure thanks to PGD and 'savior sibling'
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:00 AM
Hallelujah! Charlie Whitaker, a toddler ill with a rare and life-threatening blood disorder, has been pronounced cured after receiving a transplant of the umbilical blood from his brother Jamie. Jamie was conceived using PGD, a technique which uses genetic screening to choose a tissue-matched embryo. The Whitakers were forced to travel from Britian to the US... Read More...
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UK's first savior sibling is a 'perfect match' -- and parents are thrilled to have a girl.
Monday, August 08, 2005 9:00 AM
A few weeks ago I mentioned the birth of the UK's first savior sibling -- Jodie Fletcher, born after PGD was used to select embryos tissue-matched to her 3-year-old brother, Joshua. Joshua suffers from a rare blood disorder, and despite extensive medical treatment is often in severe pain. His only hope for a cure is from a blood stem cell transplant from a tissue... Read More...
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Article: Birth of first "Savior Sibling" conceived in the UK with PGD
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:21 AM
Article: 'Savior sibling' born to Fletcher family (BioNews, UK) I've written before about the Whitakers, a family with a seriously ill son who could be cured by a bone marrow transfusion. They hoped to use PGD to have a 'savior sibling' -- using an embryo selected because it was a tissue match for their older son. However, the UK's HFEA (the aptly called "watchdog... Read More...
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