Annotated Bibliography 11/24

http://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/290.extract

J Med Ethics
2002

There was this woman who was thirty at the time and was bound to have Alzheimers by the time she would reach forty. However she was able to use PGD (pre implantation genetic diagnosis) and track down an embryo that was not a carrier of the particular gene. The woman was then able to birth a child that was completely free of this disease. This marked a very important time for the PGD and the designer baby as a whole. This was the first case where the PGD has been used to find an embyro with the defect 1-3. This most likely gives people an abundance of hope and reliance on the PGD test. This can give people a certain feeling of safety with this, and will probably attract more and more people in time with getting good results.