SHOULD the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act preclude the selection of an embryo as a tissue match for a seriously ill sibling, where the embryo itself is not at risk of inheriting the condition (Â鶹´«Ã½, 10 August, p 3)? I asked health ministers.
Hazel Blears, the public health minister, said that the question had risen after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority rejected a licence application for a tissue match case this summer. Doctors and parents wanted to produce a tissue-matched baby whose umbilical cord blood could be given to its sibling who suffers from a rare debilitating…
