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Stem cell storage
Storing your baby’s stem cells might provide a lifeline if they fall seriously ill in future. Here we investigate this relatively new private health service… Stem cells – the basic building blocks of human life – are already being successfully used as part of the treatment for childhood leukaemia and various forms of cancer but they also…
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Baby made to save sister
October 4, 2000 BABY MADE TO SAVE SISTER AN AMERICAN test-tube baby has been carefully selected to have the right genes to save the life of his sister. The baby boy, Adam Nash, was genetically tested along with other embryos to have the type of cells needed to save his sister, suffering from a life-threatening…
Pregnant woman carrying ‘designer baby’
1st December Pregnant woman carrying ‘designer baby’A woman who was given permission to have embryo screening in a bid to save her two year old son is in the early stages of pregnancy. Julie Fletcher and her husband Joe, from Moira, County Down, won the go-ahead earlier this year to begin treatment in an attempt to treat…
