Couple have 'designer baby' : (20/06/03)
London
- British couple who went to the United States
for embryo selection to ensure having a baby with
the right genetic match to save their four-year-old
son have been successful, press reports today
said. British authorities had denied Jayson and
Michelle Whitaker the procedure required to ensure
the new baby would have the right match to save
Charlie (4), who has Diamond Blackfan anaemia.
He needs regular transfusions and painful injections
five nights a week. The new baby, James, was delivered
by Caesarean section in a hospital in Sheffield
in the north of England on Monday. The British
press termed him a "designer baby''. Read
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(Courtesy
The Hindu
dated 20/06/03)
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