News & Blogs Archive

Clinic in US isolates 50 lines of stem cells, by Gareth Cook, Globe Staff , June 9, 2004. Gareth Cook said, “A private Chicago fertility clinic is set to announce this week that its scientists have isolated 50 new lines of human embryonic stem cells, part of an ambitious

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Healthy babies for disease carriers, by JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH, Jun. 5, 2004 23:10 The author describes the case of the first woman to use PGD to find a healthy baby. “A Jerusalem woman suffering from myotonic dystrophy is due to give birth in December to a healthy baby identified as

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Testing new hope for IVF success By ZOE TAYLOR Medical Reporter, June 7, 2004 In this article Zoe Taylor describes PGD as a “world-first trial”. I guess that the clinic (Sydney IVF) didnt explain to the reporter that there are more than 1,000 babies born using PGD. “Several hundred

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Desperate couples seek court’s help, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan. I found the following in an article today at “Asahi Shimbum, Japan’s Leading National Newspaper”, the reporter describes what couples and doctors are doing regarding PGD: One of the plaintiffs, a woman in her 30s, has suffered repeated miscarriages. “My

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Early genetic testing allays fears, ignites ethics debate by By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY. In an article published yesterday on USA TODAY Rita Rubin said, “To critics, though ….. the quest for a stem cell donor may be only the first step toward tissue donor mills and designer babies

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Parents with sick kids turning to siblings’ stem cells, By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY In an article published yesterday on USA TODAY Rita Rubin said, “Some ethicists have expressed concern about using technology to create children who would be tissue donors for siblings. They cite a lack of information

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Clinic aids parents who seek ‘designer baby’ to help save sick sibling. By Victoria Griffith in Boston. In an article today by Victoria Griffith in Boston she talks about the report at the Journal of the American Medical Association – JAMA where Reproductive Genetics Institute – RGI presents their

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