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'Designer' baby to cure brother

The Straits Times:

A British 'designer' baby has been born to a couple desperate to cure their four-year-old son, who has a rare form of anaemia, a British daily reported yesterday.

Jamie Whitaker was delivered by caesarean operation on Monday after being genetically matched, while still an in-vitro fertilisation embryo, to his brother Charlie, The Daily Mail said.

Charlie has the rare diamond blackfan anaemia, which only a transplant of stem cells from a sibling with a perfect tissue match can cure.