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 after finding out that her little girl – the UK’s first designer baby – is an identical genetic match for her sick toddler son.
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“It’s great news,” Julie told the Belfast Telegraph. “We were told that there was an exact match. Now we wait and see what happens.”
Now that the siblings are matched, the Fletchers are hoping a unique transplant can take place next year.
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The next stage will be to establish whether doctors have enough stem cells required to carry out the transplant.
“At the moment we do not know if enough stem cells were collected,” Julie said. “My understanding is that it was only one third of what was expected. We simply have to wait and see if this is enough.”

Read the complete article via Belfast Telegraph here.