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Infertility Doctors: Genetic Disease Detection is Skyrocketing, Could Reshape Medicine
November 22nd, 2007
Dramatic progress in the detection of horrendous genetic diseases in days-old human embryos is opening new frontiers in reproductive medicine, Charlotte doctors say, raising the possibility that fertility physicians may one day be sought almost as much for their genetic expertise as for enabling pregnancies. Rapid progress in avoiding catastrophic inherited diseases -- boosted by research in genetic development that won the Nobel Prize for a North Carolina scientist last month -- is unfolding from a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Used in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF), PGD allows specialists to biopsy embryos in their first...
Source: Genetics & Environmental Business Week (2007-11-22)
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