Company name: StemLifeLine Website: http://www.stemlifeline.com/ Sales pitch: A novel service for individuals who have undergone in vitro fertilization, fulfilled their childbearing needs and now have to decide what to do with their remaining stored embryos. We can help transform these embryos into individual stem cell lines that our clients
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Here is what some people in Japan think about PGD. Boost use of genetic diagnosis By RINA SHIBOI Tokyo Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a medical technology that checks whether the chromosomes and genes of fertilized eggs are defective. Today, even though there isn’t a particular law that prohibits
I received this interesting note from Spain, Spanish Parliament Lifts Some Restrictions on IVF Treatment, Allows Varying Usage of Excess Embryos [Feb 21, 2006] Spain’s Parliament on Thursday approved a measure that would lift restrictions on the number of embryos that can be implanted into a woman undergoing in
Aging baby boomers, costs, success rates cited By Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff | November 14, 2005 The ”test-tube baby” industry seems to have grown up. Currently, about 1 percent of births in the United States, more than 45,000 babies each year, were conceived by ”Assisted Reproductive Technology,” mainly IVF,