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...Internet privacy to genetic testing, technology has raced ahead too fast for legal doctrine to keep up. And nowhere is the gap between what scientists have discovered and what judges must rule on greater than in the realm of artificial reproduction. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 frozen embryos--fertilized eggs no larger than a grain of sand--are being preserved in liquid-nitrogen canisters across the country. As many as 20,000 of them could be in legal limbo. As of now, the courts have no clear rules for resolving questions of ownership and control. Lawyers...
...quite. What Wilmut is conceding is that Dolly's mom--or should we say her twin sister?--probably had some fetal cells circulating in her bloodstream, and that one of these fetal cells could conceivably have found its way into the laboratory culture from which Dolly sprang. Cloning an embryo from a fetal cell, of course, would not be as big a deal. What made the Dolly experiment so extraordinary was that Wilmut had managed to get the DNA of an adult cell to revert to its early embryonic state, opening the door to the cloning of a cell from...
...record books. His middle-aged parents welcomed him as an unexpected 8-lb. 15-oz. bundle of joy. Delivered by C-section in a suburban Los Angeles hospital, Baby Billy, as he was nicknamed by the local paper, is a medical miracle--the product of an embryo frozen for 7 1/2 years. For a few days last week, Billy, whose parents prefer anonymity, was hailed as the oldest human embryo ever brought to term. Then the bubble burst...
Shortly after the widely publicized blessed event, Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital announced that a baby born there in December came from an embryo frozen four months longer. The next day, N.Y.U. Medical Center in New York City said it had successfully transferred an embryo frozen for more than eight years. "It's no big deal," said Dr. Alan DeCherney, UCLA's chief of obstetrics and gynecology, who noted that because fertility clinics have been working with frozen human embryos since 1984, other physicians may well have transferred even older ones without making a fuss...
...Kennedy-Feinstein bill faces potential opposition from senators who argue that the creation and destruction of a human embryo, even in a research setting, is analogous to an abortion...