Company seeks DNA donors
A new US company, DNA Sciences, has launched a web-based appeal to recruit up to 100,000 volunteers to provide DNA samples for research into a range of illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and breast cancer. Participants will not be paid, although the firm does pledge that any new diagnostic tests...
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Donating eggs the American way
by Juliet Tizzard
New guidelines from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), reported on in this week's BioNews, recommend that American egg donors should be paid no more than $5000 for their donation. British commentators will no doubt feel uncomfortable about this level of payment. In the UK, egg donors are only...