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• A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children

  Want a daughter with blond hair, green eyes and pale skin? A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it Read More...
  Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:02 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: IVF, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, fertility clinics, Genetic discrimination

• 70-year-old gives birth to twins

  Defying age, a septugenarian woman has given birth to twins, a male and a female, in a village of Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh. 'We are old. My wife Raj Kali is 70 years and I am 75 years. But god has graced us in such old age and we are happy Read More...
  Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 3:23 AM by Editor / 1 Comments

  Tags: IVF, Aging

• Baby to be born free of breast cancer after embryo screening

  A woman has conceived Britain’s first baby guaranteed to be free from hereditary breast cancer. Doctors screened out from the woman’s embryos an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a greater than 50% chance of developing the Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:18 AM by Editor / 1 Comments

  Tags: breast cancer, IVF, Cancer