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...embryo was a breakthrough of the first order. Scientists are eager to examine that process more closely, hoping that they might discover by what mechanism individual genes are turned off or on. They might even tease out a few clues about the origins of cancer and hereditary diseases like cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy...
...really the first time? Is cloning all that different from genetically engineering an embryo to eliminate a genetic disease like cystic fibrosis? Is it so far removed from in vitro fertilization? In both those cases, after all, an undeniable reductiveness is going on, a shriveling of the complexity of the human body to the certainty of a single cell in a Petri dish. If we accept this kind of tinkering, can't we accept cloning? Harvard neurobiologist Lisa Geller admits that intellectually, she doesn't see a difference between in vitro technology and cloning. "But," she adds, "I admit...
Sufian, who learned she had cystic fibrosis at age 9, gives countless hours of free legal advice, even from bed during her periodic hospitalizations. She answers questions from patients, doctors and parents of sick children on issues from insurance coverage to employment rights. She is also helping start a camp for children who have cystic fibrosis. Says she: "I hope my efforts shatter the stereotypes not only about lawyers but also about people with disabilities...
...obstacles, medical researchers are sanguine about the future of gene therapy. To date, they have injected about 1,500 patients with some form of altered genes as part of the more than 200 gene-therapy trials taking place worldwide. Among the 30-odd illnesses targeted in these trials are cystic fibrosis, vascular disease and 15 forms of cancer...
Worldwide, only about 76 babies have been born as a result of PGD. So far the procedure has produced healthy children for parents who were carriers of cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other even rarer genetic conditions. But the procedure is still experimental, and mistakes can be tragic. At least one child has been born with cystic fibrosis as a result of laboratory error...