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Misleading "Slate" article slurs PGD
Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:25 AM
"Now you can design your own baby. But should you?" is the tantalizing teaser for this week's much-quoted article about preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the online magazine Slate. The inaccurate and sensational lead-in is entirely appropriate for the misleading, fear-mongering article. I guess this is what happens when an article about advanced reproductive...
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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...
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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...
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Smoking fathers are less likely to have a son
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 9:47 AM
If your husband is a heavy smoker, you may be much less likely to have a son. Men who were smokers were much less likely to produce male embryos, in a study of couples using IVF with PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis): The men's semen samples were analyzed to determine the X:Y ratio, the number of boy-producing compared to girl-producing sperm. All samples...
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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...
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Boy or girl: Can you choose?
Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:21 PM
This American Baby magazine feature article is "a roundup of what you can try at home -- and what's involved in going the high tech route". The article includes a few quotes from me (Maureen) and a mention of this Web site. Boy or girl: Can you choose? American Baby Magazine
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Article: Test Tube Perfection (Herald Sun, Australia)
Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:16 AM
Article: Test tube perfection , Herald Sun, Australia Quotes from the maladroit Father Bill Uren, rector of the Jesuit Theological College: He denounced parents who "just want to create children after their own image". What, exactly, kind of children should I want, then? I pretty much thought children in our "own image" was the natural course of events. "What...
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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...
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Gender Selection More Possible, But Controversial
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:00 AM
Gender Selection More Possible, But Controversial ABC News Lengthy article covers MicroSort and PGD and compares medical gender selection to home kits like GenSelect.
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