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...Francisco company announced Tuesday that they would be the first to offer IVF patients the option of growing, freezing and banking their own embryonic stem cells. Until now, couples undergoing in vitro fertilization could not earmark stem cells derived from their embryos for their own future use; they could only donate them to the nationwide pool of embryos used for stem cell research...
...such embryos lie in frozen animation in IVF clinics across the U.S. Couples have the option of keeping these embryos frozen, discarding them, donating them to other infertile couples, or making them available for study. Because President Bush has forbidden federal funds to be used to study human embryonic stem cells, only privately supported programs can ask couples with excess embryos to donate them for stem cell research. Given the high cost of each IVF cycle, however, more and more couples expressed a desire to keep their stem cells from themselves, to use whenever stem cell therapies became a reality...
...When I was doing research on stem cells, my team got a lot of inquiries from IVF patients and professionals asking if they could donate embryos to generate stem cells that they could have access to," says Anna Krtolica, a biochemist and CEO of StemLifeLine, the California company offering the service. "Until now, there wasn't that option...
...report addressing these concerns must be submitted by the University for review by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) before construction can begin on the complex this fall. Harvard will file its draft project impact report to the BRA in June. The completed complex is slated to house the Harvard Stem Cell Initiative and Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing—a research and development center dedicated to using computing tools to accelerate scientific discoveries—among other science-oriented programs. In a detailed traffic analysis presentation, Chris Conklin, Harvard’s traffic consultant from Vanasse...
...discourse should always remain as a part of our national discourse. Those who want to remove faith from discussion are as flawed in thinking as those who want to replace discussion with faith. As the next presidential election approaches, religion will be a central issue in terms of abortion, stem cells, Mormonism, gay rights, and numerous other issues. God matters now and will matter in the future because of who we are, and because we need all the help...