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January 9th, 2009
Posted: 05:00 AM ET
By Richard Allen Greene LONDON, England (CNN) — In a season celebrated for a miraculous birth, a mother and father in England are welcoming what must seem to them like a miracle. Their newborn daughter, born Friday, is the first child in Britain known to have been screened as an embryo to ensure she did not carry a gene linked to breast and ovarian cancer. She was screened in a lab, days after conception, for the BRCA-1 gene. People with the gene have a 50-80 percent chance of developing breast or ovarian cancer in their lifetimes. British newspapers have dubbed the girl the “cancer-free” baby. |
 
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