Sperm frozen for 22 years creates healthy baby girl
A man who had his sperm frozen whilst undergoing treatment for leukaemia as a teenager, has, at 38, become the father of a healthy baby girl. Christopher Biblis from Charlotte, North Carolina, was 16 when he underwent radiotherapy treatment which would have left him sterile had his...
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What has happened to the review of the Polkinghorne Guidelines on research using fetal tissue?
by Professor Naomi Pfeffer
In England and Wales in 2007, almost 200,000 women elected to terminate a pregnancy. Yet my research into fetal stem cells carried out under the ESRC Stem Cell Initiative, found obtaining fetal tissue for research, including stem cell research, surprisingly difficult (1). To some extent the quasi-official regulations that govern...