IVF specialist Dr. Firuza Parikh along with her team of geneticist edited out BRCA1 mutation in newborn using PGT technique. As per demographic statistics, every year around 8 million newborns are born in India with a genetic abnormality. Such was the case with Bengaluru’s Swayam Prabha who in 2010 found out that she carried deterred BRCA1 (BReast CAncer 1) gene. Since most of the members in her family had died or suffered a cancer outbreak. Therefore, she was determined not to pass on a similar fate to her babies.
It was Dr. Firuza Parikh, who after the consultation suggested her with a rescue. With the use of Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT), healthy embryos without BRCA1 mutation were transferred into the womb of the 37-year-old. Further, it was informed that PGD costed double, than it costs today by IVF specialist, Dr. Manish Banker. Thus; it could help parents whose child have…
