Europe struggles to meet the challenges posed by PGD patients travelling abroad
... Mr James Lawford Davies, a solicitor specialising in reproductive and genetic technologies, told the 23rd annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday 2 July) that the main reason couples travelled to other countries was because PGD was banned in their own. However, this led to concerns ov...Children born after PGD as healthy as those born after conventional IVF treatment
... PGD is a new option for couples at risk of transmitting genetic di...First birth using PGD to save baby from rhesus blood disease
Australian researchers (Thursday 20 January) announced that they have used pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to avoid a couple having a baby suffering from rhesus factor[1] disease the potentially fatal condition caused by incompatibility between a baby's blood and that of its mother....... Their pioneering work resulted in the birth of a healthy baby girl in November 2003 to a couple who...