(AGI) – Madrid, Oct. 14 – His brother has a rare hereditary disease, beta-thalassaemia major: Javier, 3 kilos and 400 grams at birth, was genetically engineered to cure him. Javier was born on Sunday morning at the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Seville “with the hope of being able to give his brother Andres, the…
Savior Siblings – PGD
British couple have entire family using embryo screening via Mail Online
What a coincidence! Check out the last name of reporter who writes this story about PGD is “Goodchild”. British couple have entire family using embryo screeningBy Sophie Goodchild A couple have become one of the first in Britain to conceive their entire family through a genetic screening technique. oanne and Adam Henry feared they would never…
Via University of Sydney – What place do “saviour siblings” have in paediatric transplantation: establishing the role of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis with HLA typing
What place do “saviour siblings” have in paediatric transplantation: establishing the role of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis with HLA typing Background: Not all children in need of a haematopoietic stem cell transplant have a suitable relative or unrelated donor available. Recently, in vitro fertilization (IVF) with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for human leukocyte antigen (HLA)…
Via BBC News – Should baby be risked for sister?
Should baby be risked for sister? By Vivienne Parry Radio 4’s Inside the Ethics Committee Catherine is a little girl condemned by genetic disease to a gruelling regime of treatment. She could be released from it by a sibling, but the sibling is not yet conceived. And can one child’s health ever be put…
PGD for breast cancer via TimesOnline
Baby to be born free of breast cancer after embryo screening Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor A woman has conceived Britain’s first baby guaranteed to be free from hereditary breast cancer. Doctors screened out from the woman’s embryos an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a greater than 50% chance of developing the…
UK lawmakers approve embryo research
By DAVID STRINGER – May 19, 2008 LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted Monday to approve controversial plans to allow the use of animal-human embryos for research. The proposed laws, the first major review of embryo science in Britain for almost 20 years, have provoked stormy debate — pitting Prime Minister Gordon Brown and scientists…
NBC Today Show – Saving baby’s cordblood.
Savior Sibling story from the UK
Sunday, May 18, 2008 By Gail Edgar Little Jodie Fletcher (2) from Co Down is the UK’s first ‘designer baby’ … a perfect genetic match for big brother Josh who suffers from rare bone marrow condition They look like any typical brother and sister playing happily together in the back garden of their Ulster home….
The Ethics of Reproductive Technology Debated
Mark Hughes, MD, PhD, director of Genesis Genetics Institute in Detroit and director of the Applied Genomics Technology Center of Michigan, spoke at the opening session of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) 56th Annual Clinical Meeting. Here are some of his remarks: “The rapid growth and clinical adaptation of genetically based…
More about the Canadian couple
“There are such things as miracles, so we are going to hope for that,” “I’m 47, and the fertility clinics in Vancouver can’t justify going through the procedure knowing that my chances are nil … for this procedure working,” “They pointed to the stats. They don’t even perform in vitro on women who are past…