Word: clinicals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maybe it should have been. The largest sperm bank in the country, the Boston-based New England Cryogenic Center, doesn’t even house an egg donation program. Clinic spokesperson Chris Arnone says that even with the potential for financial gain, it’s not worth the risk. “There’s a huge fear factor just because a woman’s body might be messed up from all the medication—five months of drugs—she would have to take,” he says. For men, donating sperm...
Although the intricacies of the stolen-genetic-material plot can be more tedious than frightening, the book’s premise is not completely divorced from reality. According to Arnone, colleges have long been a major resource for fertility clinics and that his sperm bank solicits donations from many area schools, including Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard. Because the clinic accepts only 1 in 30 donors, clinic administrators feel that catering to students helps them streamline their stringent selection process. “Almost all of our donors come from colleges,” Arnone says. Unlike in Cook?...
...addition to Royer’s clinic, the team also plans to take other steps to increase its chances for success in April. According to Kennedy-Paesler, who will be the other co-captain next year, the CDT will go dry for the entire month leading up to the national tournament, beginning this weekend...
Packed in vials and frozen in liquid nitrogen, the embryos will be hand-delivered from Boston IVF, a local fertility clinic, according to the facility’s scientific and laboratory director R. Douglas Powers...
Since President George W. Bush restricted embryonic stem cell research last August, approximately 30 couples treated by local fertility clinic Boston IVF chose to donate their leftover embryos to Melton’s lab. Many did so in the hopes of harnessing the enormous potential of the embryonic stem cells—widely recognized for their ability to develop into any other type of cell—to find a treatment for type 1 diabetes, according to Powers...