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...Jewish Theological Seminary: "The Browns were trying to obey the commandment to have children. When nature does not permit conception, it is desirable to try to outwit nature. The Talmud teaches that God desires man's cooperation." For many others, in vitro fertilization is fraught with moral dangers. British Geneticist Robert J. Berry, a consultant to a board set up by the Church of England to consider issues like the one raised by the Brown baby, accepts the procedures for couples who want a child, but he is still troubled. "We're on a slippery slope," he warns. "Western society...
...start over interviewing with other NIH researchers and, although he knew little about genetics, he impressed future Nobel Prize winning geneticist Marshall Nirenberg so much that Bernfield became a postdoctoral fellow in Niremberg?...
...year-old woman knew all too well what the disease does to a brain--and a family. Her father died at 42; her sister began declining at 38 and within five years needed full-time care; and her brother's memory began to crack at 35. A professional geneticist, the woman also knew what it would take for her and her husband to have a healthy child. By prescreening her eggs for the defective gene, doctors were able to insert only healthy embryos during in-vitro fertilization. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the woman...
Thailand, too, has asked the WTO for trademark protection for its famed variety of jasmine rice--the bright white, popcorn-flavored staple served in many Asian-cuisine restaurants. Thai farmers fear that a strain of the rice being developed for American climes by plant geneticist Chris Deren at the University of Florida will significantly cut into the $300 million worth of jasmine rice sold each year...
...Thailand, too, has asked the wto for trademark protection for its famed variety of jasmine rice?the bright white, popcorn-flavored staple served in many Asian-cuisine restaurants. Thai farmers fear that a strain of the rice being developed for American climes by plant geneticist Chris Deren at the University of Florida will significantly cut into the $300 million worth of jasmine rice sold each year...