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Baby to be born free of breast cancer after embryo screening
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6-29-2008 11:53 AM
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ratilfar
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Wow!
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6-29-2008
3:29 PM
Sheroug
I secound that!!
6-30-2008
8:19 AM
ratilfar
BTW, this was embryo screening. Would be impossible is some had their way.
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