January
23
  2:52:02 AM

IN BRIEF: survival, kidney sales, genetic privacy

Survival: The first embryo of 1,400 rescued from a flooded New Orleans IVF laboratory has been born. His parents have named him Noah. Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, police used boats in a mercy dash to rescue canisters of frozen embryos before they thawed in the sweltering heat.


 

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