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Keyword: designerembryos

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  • First designer babies to beat breast cancer (couples allowed to select screened embryos)

    04/25/2007 11:44:25 PM PDT · by Stoat · 21 replies · 674+ views
    The Times (U.K.) ^ | April 26, 2007 | Mark Henderson
    April 26, 2007     First designer babies to beat breast cancer   Mark Henderson, Science Editor   Two couples whose families have been ravaged by breast cancer are to become the first to screen embryos to prevent them having children at risk of the disease, The Times has learnt. Tests will allow the couples to take the unprecedented step of selecting embryos free from a gene that carries a heightened risk of the cancer but does not always cause it. The move will reignite controversy over the ethics of embryo screening. An application to test for the BRCA1...
  • SAUNDERS: Embryos made to order

    08/08/2006 7:55:54 AM PDT · by SmithL · 14 replies · 281+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/8/6 | Debra J. Saunders
    JENNALEE RYAN of Texas advertises "The world's First Human Embryo Bank" online. There's no need for would-be parents to settle for already-born babies or leftover embryos from couples with fertility issues. Ryan sent out a letter that explains, "Recipient parents will receive pictures of the donors as infants, and sometimes as adults; full medical background and health reports, and a family history." Her group, The Abraham Center of Life, uses sperm donors only with college degrees -- although "most of them have doctorate degrees" -- while most egg donors have some college. O Brave New World that has such petri...