Savior Siblings – PGD Archive
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
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
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
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