The UK’s fertility treatment regulator has given the go-ahead for couples to test embryos to avoid passing on hereditary cancer. At its open meeting held on 10 May in Belfast, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) accepted a recommendation from its ethics and law committee to allow licences to be granted for such procedures.
A woman is pregnant with Britain`s first designer baby selected to prevent an inherited cancer, The Times can reveal.
Embryo screening should be extended to cover genes that may cause diseases but are not certain to do so, the regulatory body for fertility treatment has recommended.
Many recent scientific advances in medicine and the life sciences involving genetic engineering leave many people concerned. Our new and increasing power to control heredity is based on a growing knowledge of our own genetic makeup as well as that of other living things.
Embryo testing should be extended to check for faulty genes not guaranteed to cause disease, a report by the UK fertility watchdog recommends.
A couple from Leicester have been given permission by the fertility watchdog to have a „saviour sibling“ in a bid to help their sick 20-month-old daughter.
All IVF embryos should be checked for genetic abnormalities before the pregnancy is allowed to go ahead, say international genetic experts.
For men who had just thrown a giant ethical bomb into the world of science, Dr. Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon were dashing about Seattle last week in a remarkably relaxed mood.
The Indian government raised the global biotechnology stakes yesterday by saying it intended to feed „nutritionally enhanced“ GM potatoes to poor children as early as next year.
GENETICALLY modified tomatoes containing edible vaccine are to be used to challenge two of the world’s most lethal viruses.
