February 24, 2006
The Consequences of Sex Selection
It took almost a decade, but Sandra Carlson and colleagues, of Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, finally got approval from their Institutional Review Board to do a long-term study of families that they will permit to select the sex of their babies through genetic testing before implanting the embryo in the mother.
People are now using the technologies we've come to associate with infertility or genetic diseases — like in vitro fertilization or techniques for examining
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