Word: embryos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film version, directed by Marek Kanievska, is a botch. Every shot is vaselined with romanticism; every dewy undergraduate looks ready to pose in his Calvins; and Rupert Everett's Bennett, a dandy dandy on the London stage, has become gross onscreen. Instead of a national tragedy in embryo, what we get is a posh summer camp. -By Richard Corliss...
Sitting in a stainless-steel vat of liquid nitrogen at Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne, chilled to a crisp-320° F, are 200 glass tubes, each holding a microscopic embryo. Just two to eight cells in size, they are babies in waiting, life on ice, kept for possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder...
That idea is fraught with problems, not the least of which are medical. According to Dr. Carl Wood, head of Queen Victoria's IVF unit, freezing techniques used in 1981 were rudimentary, and the Rios embryos are probably no longer viable. Moreover, many legal experts say that once the embryos are implanted, they lose any semblance of a claim to the Rios estate. Says Victoria Law Institute Spokesman Chris Wray: "A donor embryo does not belong to the donors of the genetic material but to the parents to whom the child is ultimately born...
...Embryo transfer among members of the same species is not a zoological novelty. First accomplished in 1890 with rabbits, the technique has since succeeded in hundreds of different mammalian species, including humans...
...first human to be born as the result of embryo transference was delivered last January to a woman in Los Angeles whose name has been withheld to protect her privacy. The baby boy was reported to be healthy...