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 a normal ovum and two-day-old embryo…
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PGD Article @ The Daily Telegraph Australia
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 women under the age of 37…
Articles citing Dr. Orange
The Journal of Clinical Investigation found today 2 articles citing Dr. Orange research on NEMO. Dr. Orange’s article is “Deficient natural killer cell cytotoxicity in patients with IKK-{gamma}/NEMO mutations” published in 2002. And the articles are: Combined deficiency in I{kappa}B{alpha} and I{kappa}B{epsilon} reveals a critical window of NF-{kappa}B activity in natural killer cell differentiation Samson,…
PGD Article @ The Asahi Shimbun, Japan.
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 right to have a healthy baby…
PGD Article @ USA Today
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 whose IQ and eye color are…
Dr. Geha donates gammaglobulin to Mexico
A thank you note from Dr. Espinosa in Mexico to Dr. Geha: —————- Dr. Raif S. Geha Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Chief Division of Immunology Children’s Hospital Boston Dear Dr. Geha, I am Dr. Francisco J. Espinosa-Rosales and I am the chief of the immunology department at…
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PGD Article @ USA Today
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 about the impact on the children…
PGD Article @ Financial Times
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 experience with 13 couples between 2002-2003…
Dr. Jordan Orange publishes presentation of NEMO
On the Journal of Clinical Allergy and Immunology: The presentation and natural history of immunodeficiency caused by nuclear factor kappaB essential modulator mutation. Orange JS, Jain A, Ballas ZK, Schneider LC, Geha RS, Bonilla FA. Department of Immunology, Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. BACKGROUND: An increasing number of rare genetic defects…