Company name: StemLifeLine Website: http://www.stemlifeline.com/ Sales pitch: A novel service for individuals who have undergone in vitro fertilization, fulfilled their childbearing needs and now have to decide what to do with their remaining stored embryos. We can help transform these embryos into individual stem cell lines that our clients may one day use to create…
Invitro Fertilization
JAPON + PGD
Here is what some people in Japan think about PGD. Boost use of genetic diagnosis By RINA SHIBOI Tokyo Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a medical technology that checks whether the chromosomes and genes of fertilized eggs are defective. Today, even though there isn’t a particular law that prohibits PGD in Japan, it is strictly…
Spanish Parliament and embryonic stem cells
I received this interesting note from Spain, Spanish Parliament Lifts Some Restrictions on IVF Treatment, Allows Varying Usage of Excess Embryos [Feb 21, 2006] Spain’s Parliament on Thursday approved a measure that would lift restrictions on the number of embryos that can be implanted into a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization and would allow couples…
Concern over ‘spare part’ babies @ BBC News
I’m OK with ‘saviour sibling’… I call her that way all the time. I’m more or less OK with ‘designer baby’… It can get controversial.. But I’m NOT OK with ‘spare part baby’… I don’t like that. Concern over ‘spare part’ babies Children created as so-called “saviour siblings” to aid a sick brother or sister…
Subscribe to The Andy Blog
Subscribe to the Andy Blog and receive an email notifications to alert you of a new post. When you subscribe you will receive email notification alerts when any of the categories at The Andy Blog is updated. The Andy Blog has the following categories, Andy’s Update – News about Andy after his stem cell transplant….
In vitro field facing slowdown
Aging baby boomers, costs, success rates cited By Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff | November 14, 2005 The ”test-tube baby” industry seems to have grown up. Currently, about 1 percent of births in the United States, more than 45,000 babies each year, were conceived by ”Assisted Reproductive Technology,” mainly IVF, according to federal figures. … ”Throughout…
Designer baby is a perfect match @ Belfast Telegraph
This is a story I’ve been following about the UK first ‘designer baby’. She was born on July 14, and the first story came out a few days later. Designer baby is a perfect match New hope for sick tot Joshua By Nigel Gould, Health Correspondent 04 August 2005 AN Ulster mum was jubilant today…
Should science reshape the human race? @ The Age
Here’s what they are talking about in Australia regarding PGD. Do parents have a moral obligation to create perfect babies? And are we ready for a future in which only the “best” are born? Amanda Dunn and Tom Noble consider the argument. It’s an idea that’s as discomforting as it is intriguing: that one day,…
The book
I’m writing a book! Paulina remembers more things than I do, she has a better memory(among lots of other things). I constantly go to Paulina with questions looking for more details so when I say ‘I” it really means ‘We’. I (we) started to write formally around February 23rd. 2005 after Andy’s last hospitalization. I…
Charlie Article @ The Guardian
I read about Charlie @ BBC on July 27th, 2004. At that time he was around day 25 after transplant. Today, three months later, The Guardian reports “Boy cured by ‘designer baby’ cells”. A six-year-old boy has been cured of a rare blood disorder after receiving blood cells from a baby brother born to save…