Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the most widely publicized scientific event of the summer was not a discovery but a saving. Harvard doctors used a new method of growing sheets of skin from tiny samples to save the lives of two young brothers, who suffered burns over almost all of their bodies in a freak accident...
...further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes on," says Ericsson. The prospective mother is then artificially inseminated with the Y-concentrated sperm. Ericsson claims that of 146 women who became pregnant by this method at clinics licensed by Gametrics, 112 bore males-a success rate...
...bearing sperm are the first to reach the bottom of the test tube, perhaps because they are slightly heavier than Y sperm. Results in eleven pregnancies are encouraging: seven girls and one set of male-female twins. Nonetheless, a larger number of pregnancies will be needed before the method is proven...
Some independent researchers suggest that the investment is a poor one. Reproductive Endocrinologist Sandra Carson helped test the Gametrics method at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. Although early results seemed encouraging, she says, "the final figures were insignificant." In their testing, Reese researchers found that the Gametrics sperm-separation method did not raise the concentration of Y sperm high enough to influence gender...
Ericsson responds to this criticism by charging, "Quality control went to hell at Michael Reese."Dr. Paul Dmowski, who left the program at Reese, also questions standards there. Dmowski, now at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, continues to use Ericsson's method and claims a success rate of about...