At the beginning of this course, I learnt about medias.The newspapers was the first media that I tried to study. In the Self Study , I would like to present my summarizing two interesting news that I found in www.guardian.co.uk. The first new that is involve with my course that I am planig to learn. Another news is important to students who is graduating in recently.
Article 1
She may never get breast cancer - but girl's birth raises new doubts over designer babies
• Embryo screened because of family history
• Mother and daughter doing well in hospital
The birth of the first British baby genetically screened before conception to be free of a breast cancer gene was hailed yesterday as a breakthrough by doctors but raised fresh questions about the ethics of creating so-called designer babies.The baby girl grew from an embryo screened to ensure that it did not contain the faulty BRCA1 gene, which would have meant she had a 50%-85% of developing breast cancer.While mother and daughter were said by a spokesman at University College hospital, London, to be doing "very well" following the birth at this week, medical experts and those involved in cancer research were considering the implications.Paul Serhal, medical director of the assisted conception unit at the hospital, said: "This little girl will not face the spectre of developing this genetic form of breast cancer or ovarian cancer in her adult life. "The parents will have been spared the risk of inflicting this disease on their daughter. The lasting legacy is the eradication of the transmission of this form of cancer that has blighted these families for generations."In June the mother, then 27, told how she decided to undergo the screening process after seeing all her husband's female relatives suffer the disease. The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, said at the time: "We felt that, if there was a possibility of eliminating this for our children, then that was a route we had to go down."The technique, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), has already been used in the UK to free babies of inherited disorders such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. But breast cancer is different because it does not inevitably affect a child from birth and may or may not develop later in life. There is also a chance it can be cured, if caught early enough.Permission to carry out PGD for breast cancer had to be obtained from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority by the London clinic which performed the procedure.Dr Sarah Cant, policy manager at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said the decision to screen embryos to see whether they have a faulty breast cancer gene was a complex and very personal issue. "Women with a family history of breast cancer tell us that what might be right for one person may not be right for another. It's important for anyone affected to have appropriate information and support so they can make the right choice for them."Kath McLachlan, a clinical nurse specialist at the charity Breast Cancer Care, said it would give those carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene "another option" to consider when starting a family.She said: "However, there are many complex issues to take into account and the decision will finally come down to an individual's personal ethics. While the selection of an embryo through PGD can reduce a person's risk of developing breast cancer, the procedure cannot prevent a non-genetic form of the disease in later life. It is essential that anyone considering using the technique is offered comprehensive information, high-quality support and advice." Doctors at the private clinic at University College hospital conducted tests on 11 embryos by removing just one cell from each when they were three days old. Six embryos were found to carry the defective BRCA1 gene. Two embryos which were free of the gene were implanted, resulting in a single pregnancy.Faulty genes are responsible for between 5% and 10% of the 44,000 cases of breast cancer that occur in the UK each year. BRCA1 and its sister gene BRCA2 are the two most commonly involved. Women with a defective BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene are up to seven times more likely to develop breast cancer than those without the mutations. As the debate about the ethics involved in the procedure was renewed, the main objection from critics remains the charge that it opens the door to the creation of babies for parents who may want their off spring to be top of the class, excel in sport, and have hair, eyes and other physical characteristics that into a particular family's wish list.Alternatively, deaf or blind couples might want their disabilities passed on to their child. Some members of the deaf community who claim they belong to a "linguistic minority" are campaigning for the right to have hearing-impaired children.
Vocabulary
Hail ( verb)
To salute or greet
To accliam
Breakthrough(noun)
An act or the place of breaking through an obstacle or restriction
Implicate (verb)
To involve,especially incriminatingly
To imply
Spectre
A ghost,phantom
Spared
To treat mercifully; deal with leniently
Inflict
To cause or carry out by aggressive action
Legacy
Money or property bequeathed to someone by will
Something handed on from those who have come before.
Eradicate
To remove comletely; uproot
Transmission
The act or process of transmitting
Blight
To cause or suffer decay; ruin
Anonymous
Having an unknown or withheld name, authorship,agency
Inherit
To come into possession of ,especially by legal succession or will.
To receive by genetic transmission from ancestor
Cystic fibrosis
A congenital disease of mucous glands of bod, causing pancreatic insufficiency and pulmonary disorders
Inevitable
Incapable of being avoided or prevented.
Permission
Consent, especially formal consent
Carry out
Take out
Comprehensive
Including or comprehending much; large in scope or content
Summarization
The pregnancy decided to help her girl baby from breast cancer by pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technique follow by some experts’ advise .They said it can treat her baby and stop inherited disorder to next generation.However, some physicians said that this way may not take the girl cure from breast cancer.Since, they have some evidence and experiment that support their argument. Moreover, the important thing, doctors should take all information to parents ,they have rights to decide that they could do or not.
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