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Yesterday, at the University College hospital in London, a woman gave birth to a baby girl that’s being hailed as a ‘designer baby.’ She developed from an embryo that was screened specifically to ensure that it was free from the BRCA1 gene that indicates a strong possibility for breast cancer. A female born with the BRCA1 gene has a 50-85% chance of developing breast cancer. This baby girl had a long family history of breast cancer, and in June of last year, her mother met with specialists to undergo the screening process. “We felt that, if there was a possibility of eliminating this for our children, then that was a route we had to go down,” says the mother, who wishes to remain anonymous.  Paul Serhal, medical director of the assisted conception unit at the hospital, said: "This little girl will not face the spectre of developing this genetic form of breast cancer or ovarian cancer in her adult life.
"The parents will have been spared the risk of inflicting this disease on their daughter. The lasting legacy is the eradication of the transmission of this form of cancer that has blighted these families for generations."
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