IN BRIEF: designer baby; IVF; new bioethics centres
Designer baby: A British woman is pregnant with the UK’s first designer baby”. In July Julie Fletcher and her husband Joe won approval from the UK’s fertility watchdog to have her embryos screened so that her second child would be genetically compatible donor for a two-year-old son with a potentially fatal blood disorder.
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