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First French genetic baby born

After test tube babies, it is the turn of genetically 'made to order' offspring. In a first for France, the genes of a baby were modified to make him free of a potentially fatal liver disease. The baby named Valentin, was born six weeks premature in a hospital near Paris. The parents of the baby boy were carriers of defective genes which could hav...