A major development will help parents who are worried about passing inherited diseases on to their children. NewsChannel5 reports in the case of sickle cell anemia , children are born with bouts of pain, life threatening infections, organ failure and stroke.
Sickle cell is a blood disorder found most commonly in the African-American community.
When both parents are carriers, there's only a 25 percent chance their children will be completely free of the disease, WEWS reports. But as the Journal of the American Medical Association reports, those odds can be dramatically changed. At Cornell University , embryos are tested for the presence of the sickle cell gene through in-vitro fertilization. This allows only normal embryos to be implanted in the mother's womb. Information about this site , our terms of use , our privacy policy , our ad policy and the people who care for and feed it.