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Once Danielle Odom decided to have a child on her own three years ago, she had to grapple with the unusual logistics her situation posed. After deciding that a sperm donation from a close, married male friend did not feel right, the 33-year-old hospital administrator from Georgetown, Texas, began to imagine her ideal donor in the parlance of personal ads: "Single white female seeks intelligent, sensitive, funny man, preferably tall, with above-average IQ, for insemination--with no strings attached...
...wasn't far off base. A sperm bank in California was offering online "catalogs" of donors with such details as sat scores, college degrees and medical history. Within a month, Odom was inseminated and later had twins, Camila and Gabriel. "I was looking for this dream man," she says. "And at the bank, I could pick him. Anything I wanted--ideal traits, whatever--there was a myriad of choices...
...like forms, each as unique as the fingerprints they highlight. These works build on Schneider’s previous experiences at the intersection of science and art, in which he produced extremely detailed portraits of parts of his own body, including a hair, his teeth and a sperm, using methods ranging from electron microscopy to molecular crystallography...
...underlying feeling is that sex sells,” he says. “But all cell biology is interesting to me. Sperm behavior is very complicated...
...think of the sperm as a single-celled human brain. There are many common proteins between the testes and the brain,” he says...