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...illnesses that they don't want to pass on to the next generation, they can opt for a remarkable procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). It starts with standard in-vitro fertilization, in which sperm from the father are mixed with eggs collected from the mother in a Petri dish. Then comes the genetic magic...
...virus is nothing more than a tiny strip of DNA or RNA crammed into a protein envelope. Using the tools of molecular biology, scientists render the virus harmless by deleting some or all of its genes, splicing the therapeutic gene into the remaining genetic material and, in a laboratory Petri dish, mixing it with human cells. The altered virus, now called a carrier or vector, can deliver the therapeutic gene into the nucleus with great dispatch...
...University of Wisconsin in Madison, the other at Johns Hopkins, announced last week that they had both pulled it off. The Hopkins team, according to a report in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, got stem cells to survive in a petri dish for as long as nine months...
...trial judge ruled for Maureen, holding that once the sperm and ovum are united--whether "in the private darkness of a Fallopian tube or the public glare of a Petri dish"--a human life has begun and it is the woman's decision whether or not to let it proceed. But the intermediate appellate court took Steven's side, rejecting the notion that the embryos are human life and emphasizing the consent form that both Kasses had signed...
Monica, actually, is not technically a Brentwood girl. She grew up just to the east, with both feet in the petri dish. Monica, whose parents' divorce papers listed a psychiatric-therapy bill of $1,800 a month, is a 90210 girl...