Another mix-up in the IVF laboratory, this time in Singapore. A Singaporean Chinese woman and a Caucasian man recently discovered that their IVF baby had a different blood type from either of them. A test confirmed that the baby shared the mother’s DNA, but not the father’s. Dr Cheng Li Chang, the medical director of Thomson Fertility Centre, apologised, although he stressed that said the centre's operating procedures "meet all regulatory requirements, and are of the highest international standards".

This is the first case of its kind to have surfaced in Singapore, but it is impossible to know whether how common it is. Similar cases in other cases have only come to light because the child looks quite different from the parents. The couple say that they will keep the child. ~ Straits Times, Nov 4