This article discusses the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to choose an embryo that possesses certain characteristics, such as a complementary immune system that will allow for successful bone marrow donation, organ donation or other life-saving clinical purposes. The use of "PGD" raises several ethical issues such as selecting against embryos with hereditary diseases and selecting for non-essential characteristics. You can read more about it in the article which appeared on USAtoday.com, "Embryo genetic screening controversial- and successful":
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2010-01-10-embryo-genetic-screening_N.htm
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Imagine your motor cortex fully activated while you have full muscle tone but both what your cortex says you are experiencing and what you are actually experiencing are not what you body is actually doing. You were trained to do this on a brain computer interface. Highly Skilled lucid dreamers in intense sessions and brain tomography on the level of seismic tomography make this all possible. Accessing the brain thru non-invasive means is vital in Berlin where Brain Computer Interfacers and the Locked-in are moving things with only their minds; however, one might say that all this research is treading water awaiting advances in Neuro-surgery. I’m pitching the thoroughly developed non-invasive technique as a necessary prelude to the invasive interface. I’m just looking for sympathetic places to post the story I’m telling in the form of a fictitious photo journal.
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, is a procedure that may be performed along with in vitro fertilization or other assisted reproductive technologies to identify genetic defects in embryos that are created with the procedure.
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