First "Designer" Baby

Adam Nash: First "Designer" Baby

Adam Nash, born in Colorado of 2000, was the first test tube baby created to provide matching tissue for an older sibling. Without her "savior sibling", Molly Nash, 6, who was suffering from a blood disorder that leads to dangerously low blood-cell counts and constant fatigue, could've died within a year. Her only hope was a bone-marrow transplant. Doctors preferred a genetically matched sibling. Thus, Molly's parents underwent IVF to try and creat such a donor. Creating Adam to treat Molly's disorder had been a success.

Even though Adam Nash would be considered a designer baby, he only applies to the catagory of embryos that have been genetically altered to ensure that they'll be healthy and free of a particular disease causing gene.

Today a designer baby is described as being an embryo who's non essential genes like hair color, eye color, and athelticism has been selected and implanted back into the mothers womb. This type of disigner baby is banned. There hasn't been any case of a non essential designer baby being created.