Critics Blast 'Designer Baby' Clinic

Docs want to cut number of multiple births from fertility treatment

(NEWSER) - Fertility doctors are beginning to wonder whether they're too successful. With in vitro fertilization prompting a 70% increase in the rate of multiple births since 1980, some are espousing a switch to single-embryo transfer. The procedure lowers the success rate but also lowers the rate of multiple births, with their attendant health risks, the New York Times reports. More»

It could be possible in 3 years

(NEWSER) - UK researchers have grown embryos that combine the DNA of one man and two women, a development that could help babies avoid genetic defects. In broad strokes, it works like this: Parents at risk of passing on a genetic disorder fertilize an egg, and the healthy material is extracted and put into the "shell" of an egg from another woman. Junior would still look like his two natural parents. More»

(AP) - The biological parents of a baby boy born to a woman implanted with the wrong embryo say they will remain "eternally grateful" for her decision to turn the baby over to them. The Toledo woman gave birth to a health baby boy this week after a fertility clinic mistakenly implanted her with an embryo from Paul and Shannon Morell of Michigan. The Morells today called Carolyn Savage their "guardian angel." More»

Former teen leukemia patient sets record

(NEWSER) - A North Carolina man had his sperm frozen when he was 16, before leukemia treatment rendered him sterile. A record 22 years later, Chris Biblis and his wife conceived a daughter—and now she’s been born healthy, the Times of London reports. “From my life being saved to being able to create a life, words just can’t describe where we are now,” Biblis said. More»

(NEWSER) - Nadya Suleman became a national sensation this week, receiving death threats and a getting the business end of critical interview with her own mother, but she says she’s doing just fine. "I'm OK, and the babies are good," she told Us Weekly reporters today outside her home. "I'm going to see the babies. I have lots to do." More»