Date:   3/2/2009 6:02:00 PM ( 15 y ago)
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A US clinic has sparked controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye and hair colour of their offspring.

The LA Fertility Institutes run by Dr Jeff Steinberg, a pioneer of IVF in the 1970s, expects a trait-selected baby to be born next year.

His clinic also offers sex selection.

UK fertility experts are angered that the service will distract attention from how the same technology can protect against inherited disease.

The Science is based on a lab technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD.

the rest...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918296.stm


Why not? We have Genetically-Modified-Organisms everything else... :-\

grz-


 

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