'Designer baby' clinic to charge £6,000 per child
By Beezy Marsh, Health Correspondent
(Filed: 26/03/2006)

Britain's first IVF "designer baby" clinic is to charge about £6,000 for a made-to-order infant.
The £5 million centre will bring pioneering embryo screening techniques for the creation of "saviour siblings" to Britain.

In addition, it will offer testing for up to 100 inherited gene disorders such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.

Embryos found to be carrying rogue genes will be discarded and only "healthy" embryos implanted into their mothers.

Controversially, doctors at the centre have already obtained the first British licence to treat a couple with an inherited form of bowel cancer in the hope that their baby will never develop the disease. The centre is to be opened by the private Care at the Park IVF Clinic in Nottingham within three months. story