New IVF Techniques Design Genetically Healthy Babies in Labs

December 10, 2014

(Times of India) – From helping infertile couples have babies, ART has evolved to assist people in having genetically healthy babies. This has been possible due to improved pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), a procedure of carrying out genetic testing on embryos created in a laboratory. “Only the embryo that don’t have genetic defects will be implanted in the womb,” said infertility specialist Dr Firuza Parikh from Jaslok Hospital…