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...Cook dismisses this idea of isolating Ivy League donors as silly, citing the Nobel Laureate sperm bank as a poorly conceived idea. “I don’t think there’s ever been a situation where the offspring of a Nobel Laureate has won a Nobel Prize,” he says. “People don’t quite understand genetics,” he says with slight frustration...
...Cook says his intentions in writing Shock were twofold. “I wanted to underline the fact that this monetary economy is emerging for female eggs,” he says, “and I wanted people to know something about embryonic stem cell technology and the basics of therapeutic cloning.” The book does just that, at times relishing the details of the scientific minutia so lovingly that a non-biology concentrator can become a bit confounded. But the main idea is one anyone can grasp: The egg donation process is dangerous?...
Another issue Cook addresses in his novel is that infertility clinics operate with what he considers insufficient government oversight. “Nobody seems to be doing anything about it,” Cook explains, “because something that touches, or even perceives to touch, the abortion issue, becomes very highly politicized.” As a result, Cook says, clinics have fallen through the cracks. “There’s also the problem that infertility specialists are the highest-paid physicians today,” he adds. “It’s kind...
...Cook says that with new advances in stem cell research, it may not be long before there is a cure for infertility—so long as the politicization of the issue doesn’t hamper researchers...
...says. “I’m very fearful of it being politicized this much because if it falls in the hands of demagogic politicians, they’ll use it to inflame, to increase their own popularity.” For this reason, Cook says he isn’t ready to move on to a different subject. “The whole reason I got into writing fiction is that I got this idea that fiction could not only entertain but also carry some information that could hopefully help people make up their minds on some sort...