His blood will cure the sick brothers
E 'born in France the first "baby-medicine." The result of artificial insemination, her embryo was selected so that his blood could help treat beta-thalassemia, which affects its bigger brothers. The small-Umut Talha, turkish name which means "hope" has come to light in Clamart, outside Paris, and is "in excellent health." The technique used for the birth Alps is legal since 2004.
The baby was born thanks to IVF after a double pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, which allowed physicians to choose an embryo that is not carrying the disease and compatible blood and tissues of patients with the brothers.
The law on bioethics in 2004 that allows this type of genetic manipulation has raised much controversy. This is the first pregnancy completed the introduction of the legislation.
The first birth of a child of this type took place in the United States in 2000. While the first two "baby-medicine" Europeans born in Spain and Belgium in 2005. In the Old Continent many states allow the practice.
TGCOM - February 7, 2011
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