Eyecatchers-66: "Embryo Testing"

Parents in Australia were suing an embryo-testing clinic for allowing their child to carry a cancer gene.

Courtesy: Paul Ford, HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW, January 22, 2008

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"Embryo test 'offers parents hope" by Caroline Ryan BBC News, Prague

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5079802.stm

"Should we be able to choose our kids?", By Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, CNN.com/Health, August 20, 2002 -

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/08/19/ethics.matters/index.html

"Should embryo testing be restricted? " BBC News - Talking Point, November 19, 1999 -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/522749.stm

"Embryo test for 200 diseases", Healthcare Today Magazine - http://www.hc2d.co.uk/content.php?contentId=1068

"Genetic Embryo Testing Video Clip", http://www.infertile.com/media_pages/television/2001-04-xx_ktvi_genetest.htm

"Call to scrutinise embryo testing", David Adam, science correspondent, The Guardian, April 26 2005 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/apr/26/health.science

"Embryo testing could produce babies who might aid sick siblings", News-Medical.Net - http://www.news-medical.net/?id=1220

"Embryo testing prevents rhesus factor disease" by Karen Barlow for The World Today - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1285912.htm