December 4, 2008By DENISE GRADYFor nearly 15 years, Kim and Walt Best have been paying about $200 ayear to keep nine embryos stored in a freezer at a fertility clinic atDuke University — embryos that they no longer need, because they arefinished having children but that Ms. Best cannot…

December 4, 2008By DENISE GRADYFor nearly 15 years, Kim and Walt Best have been paying about $200 ayear to keep nine embryos stored in a freezer at a fertility clinic atDuke University — embryos that they no longer need, because they arefinished having children but that Ms. Best cannot…

“Embryo adoption” services touch on some controversial issues, starting with their name….SEATTLE – The day the frozen embryo arrived via FedEx was the day Maria Lancaster began experiencing firsthand what she said she had always believed: that human life begins at conception.Lancaster was 46 and, after three miscarriages, she…

“Embryo adoption” services touch on some controversial issues, starting with their name….SEATTLE – The day the frozen embryo arrived via FedEx was the day Maria Lancaster began experiencing firsthand what she said she had always believed: that human life begins at conception.Lancaster was 46 and, after three miscarriages, she…

By Rebecca Robey:UK scientists have developed a new screening technique that could allow prospective parents to test their IVF embryos for any known genetic disease. The test, dubbed ‘a genetic MoT’, would cost just £1500 and could be available by next year pending licensing by the Human Fertilisation and…

I was reading this morning an article from Columbia University titled The Egg Hunt: Cashing in on college fertility. And as I read the article it began as a typical article about egg donation, why college girls donate, how much money they receive, what they plan to do…

By Rebecca Robey:UK scientists have developed a new screening technique that could allow prospective parents to test their IVF embryos for any known genetic disease. The test, dubbed ‘a genetic MoT’, would cost just £1500 and could be available by next year pending licensing by the Human Fertilisation and…

I was reading this morning an article from Columbia University titled The Egg Hunt: Cashing in on college fertility. And as I read the article it began as a typical article about egg donation, why college girls donate, how much money they receive, what they plan to do…

Aanis Elspas is a mother of four. Unlike most parents, she had three of her children simultaneously. The nine-year-old triplets were born in 1997 after Elspas underwent a series of in vitro fertilization treatments for infertility. Her oldest child, 10, is the happy result of a prior ivf treatment…