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Designer Baby Given Go-ahead

Posted by michael on Tuesday March 11, 2003 @03:19PM from the organlegging dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A couple in the Australian city of Melbourne has been given the legal go ahead to breed a genetically modified 'designer' baby to cure their terminally ill child."

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Genetic screening ... not modification by bigsteve@dstc · 2003-03-11 15:31 · Score: 5, Informative

The summary of the this Slashdot posting is misleading. It is absolutely clear from the Melbourne Age article that this is not genetic modification. For example, it says:
It is believed to be the first time in Australia that approval has been granted to use IVF in combination with genetic screening and tissue matching to create a "donor" child for a sick sibling.