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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Lengthy article covers MicroSort and PGD and compares medical gender selection to home kits like GenSelect....
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