BRITAIN’S fertility watchdog has approved the extension of embryo gene screening.

A BRITISH woman who will give birth at the age of 63 insisted yesterday “a great deal of thought” had been invested in her baby son.

US SCIENTISTS say they have developed a way of harvesting stem cells without destroying the embryo they grow in.

THE spectre of babies being created for “spare parts” was brought closer yesterday, as the British House of Lords declared “designer babies” can be used to treat siblings with genetic disorders.

Ethics campaigners today criticised a 66-year-old Romanian academic for becoming the world’s oldest woman to give birth.

The British fertility watchdog was meeting today to consider relaxing its rules on embryo screening to allow the birth of “designer babies” to cure sick siblings.

FEARS have been raised that an ovarian tissue transplant procedure which helped a woman get pregnant after being made infertile by cancer treatment could be misused by those looking to have “designer” children.

Anti-abortion groups today accused the government of ‘‘cost-cutting’’ and being ‘‘obsessed’’ with abortion after it emerged that women are to be offered faster, easier terminations.