Area Quote by Robert Edwards

Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many…

— Joan Lunden

Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults…

— Scott Simon

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and…

— Jeffrey Kluger

The simple reason no embryo can develop without at least one X chromosome is that it's the X, not the Y, that is loaded…

— Kenneth R. Miller

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what…

— Francis Collins

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

— Robert Casey

Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed……

— Ronan O'Rahilly

One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then the fertilized…

— James D. Watson

We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to…

— Panayiotis Zavos

“Genetically speaking, humans are terrible research subjects. We're genetically promiscuous--we mate with anyone we choose--and we don't take kindly to scientists telling us who…

— Rebecca Skloot

Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even…

— Ellen Ullman

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or…

— Steven Pinker