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Last year, Melton announced that he had created 17 new stem cell lines from discarded embryos donated by a Boston in-vitro fertility clinic, more than doubling existing stem cell lines available in the U.S. at the time...
...South Korean researchers announce their findings, U.S. legislators are debating a bill that would allow federal funding to be allocated for embryonic stem cells created via discarded embryos from in-vitro fertility clinics...
...proposed legislation, however, will only allow federal funding for stem cells that are derived from excess embryos from in-vitro ferility clinics. If the new legislation passes, research will be subject to National Institutes of Health guidelines—likely to mirror a set of recommendations released by the National Academy of Sciences last month...
DIED. GEORGEANNA JONES, 92, one of the country's first reproductive endocrinologists; in Norfolk, Va. She and her husband Howard Jones started the life of the first U.S.-born "test tube" baby, Elizabeth J. Carr, on Dec. 28, 1981, through in-vitro fertilization...
Congratulations to representative Dana Rohrabacher, 56, and his wife Rhonda, 34, who gave birth to triplets last month. As we tend to suspect when a couple has triplets, the new parents used the services of a fertility clinic. Modern in-vitro techniques generally involve creating multiple embryos in the laboratory, transferring two or three and hoping that at least one will make it through to birth. Often it doesn't work. Sometimes it works unexpectedly well. Successful or not, the process creates many more embryos than babies. There is a built-in presumption--really, an intention--that even most...