BBC News - First successful saviour sibling treatment for UK: Megan Matthews would have died but for tissue donated by her baby brother Max. It's the first time that the entire treatment has been successfully conducted in the UK.
CARE Fertility in Nottingham carried out IVF treatment, taking cells from the three day old embryos and testing each one for the disease and also checking if it was a suitable match for the transplant. Two embryos were implanted and a single baby boy, Max, was born 18 months ago.
Max's umbilical cord blood was preserved and he later needed an operation to recover bone marrow. The cells were used in Megan's transplant in July.
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