
The first British baby genetically selected to be free of a breast cancer gene has been born, doctors said today. She grew from an embryo screened to ensure it did not contain the faulty BRCA 1 gene, which passes the risk of breast cancer down generations.
University College London said the mother and her little girl were doing "very well".
Sadly, the child is not possessed of adamantium claws or the ability to manipulate magnetic fields through sheer force of will. Her superpower is being free of the breast cancer gene.
This strikes me as, frankly, a rather roundabouts way of accomplishing something obvious. Wouldn't it have been much easier to just select a male embryo and be done with it? Sure, guys can get breast cancer but it's staggeringly improbable.
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