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During his deliberations, Bush was reportedly worried when a Virginia institute announced it had collected sperm and egg donations to create embryos specifically for developing stem cells for research. Researchers argued it was more honest to create embryos solely for research. Bush saw a slippery slope...
...contrast, two other groups chose a more provocative path. In July of this year, the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts biotech firm, Advanced Cell Technology, disclosed that it was trying to create embryos using human-cloning techniques. The back-to-back developments surprised opponents and supporters alike, and brought new calls for a ban on all embryonic stem-cell research...
...turns out the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., has been doing exactly that: taking volunteers' sperm and eggs to create a human embryo for the sole purpose of dismembering it for its mother lode of stem cells...
...FERTILITY CLINICS During in-vitro fertilization, clinics routinely fuse more than one egg with sperm. That way, if implanting a fertilized egg doesn't work the first time, they can try again. This practice has left thousands of unwanted embryos stored in clinic freezers. James Thomson, left, the first scientist to establish a human stem-cell line, used such embryos...
...MADE TO ORDER The Jones Institute in Virginia, where the first U.S. test-tube baby was conceived, has mixed sperm and eggs expressly to create embryos as sources for stem cells...