Law lords give the go ahead for creation of “saviour siblings”

The United Kingdom's highest court last week gave the go ahead for the creation of “saviour siblings” to give umbilical cord, blood, or bone marrow to try to save the life of a brother or sister. Five judges in the House of Lords unanimously ruled that the law that set up the Human Embryology and Fertilisation Authority gives the authority the power to licence, alone or separately, both preimplantation genetic diagnosis and tissue typing on embryos used in treatment for …