Doctors in India have been ordered to stop providing sex determination services and participating in selective abortion of female fetuses. The Indian Medical Association has issued a warning that independent investigations will be launched against doctors suspected of participating in such practices and the Medical Council of India has made...
A researcher is suing the University of Hawaii over rights to a technique that introduces foreign genes into living organisms. Anthony Perry, who has been working with Ryuzo Yanagimachi's renowned mouse-cloning team at Hawaii, is suing the university over the new transgenic technique which could have lucrative applications in breading...
Researchers have developed a complex computer program that could lead to a safer and more accurate prenatal test for disorders such as Down syndrome. Combining blood and ultrasound tests from the first and second trimesters of a pregnancy, the computer program can identify Down syndrome with only a one per...
Doctors at University College hospital in London are to treat three families with a history of inherited cancer by carrying out genetic tests on embryos during standard in vitro fertilisation. Joy Delhanty, the professor of human genetics who is leading the research, is working on the simplest of inherited cancers...
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Embryo screening for late onset cancer is not frivolous
by Juliet Tizzard
Whenever embryo screening is discussed in the media, there is always talk of slippery slopes and designer babies. And the most recent occasion should not disappoint. When Professor Joy Delhanty of University College London announced her plans to offer embryo screening - or preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) - for a range of...