This article takes another look at PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis), and how it is being used to screen embryos for an inherited cancer risk gene. Once again it raises the issue of how more and more things can be screened for at this early stage, and where should fertility clinics draw the line in embryo testing. Especially when couples who are able to get pregnant on their own, may soon be turning to PGD to create the designer baby of their dreams.
| Screening embryos to avoid deadly genes San Francisco Chronicle, USA - ... Kingsbury's that the expense and physical demands of in vitro fertilization were not worth it, given that the couple could probably get pregnant without it. ... |
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