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...week two Japanese scientists?Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori?published the first photographs of a giant squid in action, captured by a robotic camera 900 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. For obsessive squid hunters, it's the scientific equivalent of Captain Ahab finally getting his white sperm whale...
Graham introduced the idea that you could shop for sperm, which you really couldn’t do before. His innovation played a big role in creating the consumer economy of fertility. He forced the other sperm banks to take the things the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank had done well and do them even better and without the weird philosophy behind...
...from the future in terms of [choosing genetic material] and it is very much an open question about whether this is a benefit for them. And as you guys are going to grapple with fertility questions and expectations, the choices are going to be very tough. The Nobel Prize Sperm Bank is sort of a beta version of the choices kids now in college will make when it comes time to consider their own fertility and families...
...What do you think of the movement to make the names of donors available to the children of their sperm...
...think registration of sperm donors is probably the right idea. It will cause a huge reduction in the amount of people who are willing to be sperm donors, which is the downside. But these kids are a party to contracts between the parents and the sperm bank that have not allowed them to make these decisions. We live in a genetic age, and the current situation is not fair to children who want to know who their genetic parents, so I think registry is probably a good idea...