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Britain loosens rules on screening human embryos By Beth Gardiner, Associated Press | July 22, 2004 LONDON — Britain’s fertility regulator said yesterday it was loosening rules on screening human embryos to allow couples to conceive a baby in hopes of curing an ailing sibling. Read the complete article

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‘Designer baby’ rules are relaxed The fertility watchdog is to relax the rules on the creation of so-called “designer babies” to help sick siblings. Suzi Leather, head of the HFEA, said: “We have decided to relax the rules on embryo selection to enable all couples who want to be

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‘Designer babies’: Relax the rules? The rules governing ‘designer babies’ may soon be relaxed to allow more screening and embryo selection. Very interesting comments on the BBC website, some of them are: I think I’d be very happy to know I’d helped save my sibling’s life when I was

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Public debate over ‘designer babies. By David Firn, Parmaceuticals and Chemicals Correspondent. Published: July 16 2004 The UK government watchdog set up to monitor advances in human genetics has launched a public consultation on the testing of human embryos and babies in the womb. The discussion is expected to

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“NATIONAL consultation on designer babies by Ian Sample, science correspondent. Friday July 16, 2004. The Guardian An unprecedented nationwide consultation on the genetic testing of embryos and babies in the womb is to be launched today by the Human Genetics Commission. ATF – Copies of the report are available

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“A DESPERATE husband has offered $10,000 to the person who saves his dying wife’s life with a bone marrow transplant. Mother-of-three Josie Panetta, who turns 37 next Sunday, has acute myeloid leukemia. Doctors have told her she will be dead in two months unless a donor is found –

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Researchers Bid to Screen Embryos for Cancer, by Ben Mitchell, PA News. Scientists in the UK are preparing to seek permission to screen embryos for genes that lead to breast and bowel cancer to enable parents to prevent placing their children at risk of the diseases, it emerged today.

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Embryo test to cut cancer risk, by Mary Papadakis, June 27, 2004. Using embryos without faulty forms of genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 – also linked to ovarian cancer – would cut the risk of a child developing breast cancer … Professor Bob Williamson said yesterday that screening for gene

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“New Jersey takes the unprecedented step of including funding for stem-cell research in its state budget. The move is controversial, because it allows the state to pay for embryonic stem cell research and circumvent federal government funding guidelines. Barbara Mantel reports.” And what will Mr. Bush say?? Hear the

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“Dawn of baby-to-order era. Doctors last night announced a test that would allow women with a high genetic risk of breast cancer to choose an embryo that will ensure the risk is not passed on to their daughters.” The Times claims that the possibility of designer babies has moved

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