These days we have brought to our pages some very encouraging news about two babies that would be born free of hereditary diseases thanks to the preimplantation genetic diagnoses that allowed to select the embryos free of these diseases.
The first fact was located in the United Kingdom, and we also saw another one in Seville. I'm glad I found a story today that states that Clinical laboratories specializing in molecular genetics are also common in many large hospitals Spaniards, in addition to private laboratories, and which fundamentally diagnose any disease caused by mutations in a single gene.
In addition, these are laboratories that have equipment high level professionals in this field, in cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia or Seville, where the baby free of Huntington's disease was born.
No doubt the work they do is important, and the trend seems to confirm a settlement and expansion of research in the genetic field, with courses, meetings to review and update content that is always evolving, so that the future of this practice is assured, gaining more and more benefits for parents.
Currently, the most common diseases that are diagnosed through these prenatal study techniques they are cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, multiple endocrine neoplasia or congenital adrenal hyperplasia. But science advances unstoppable, and other areas will soon be conquered.
As the experts point out, pre-implantation genetic studies, which make it possible to select certain disease-free embryos and implant them, is still a rare practice, but a real scientific possibility as we saw in the news of the past days. I am glad to know that this door to hope for many parents is increasingly open.
