Doctor's genetic tweaks offer a new lease on life
China DailyHuang Hefeng, president of the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital of China Welfare Institute in Shanghai, has used the "third-generation test-tube baby technique" since 2001 to help with more than 2,000 healthy births at the hospital. An expert on correcting genetic imperfections, Huang Hefeng provides patients with hereditary diseases the chance to start a family without passing on problematic genes, Zhou Wenting reports in Shanghai. But now, using the "third-generation test-tube baby technique" to assess and diagnose problems in the genetic makeup of embryos, Huang is literally offering a new lease of life to these patients. "I wouldn't dare to suggest that I'm contributing to the whole nation in preventing birth defects, but I can ensure that families who come to me for medical help will be able to have a baby without disease-causing genes," says Huang, president of the International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital of China Welfare Institute in Shanghai.
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