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Panel reviews embryo donation ethics. (Policy & Practice).

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Use of spare embryos for research is ethical if the research will benefit human health, an ethics panel of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine says. Ethical research requires that couples give informed consent to donate spare embryos, that embryos not be bought or sold, that they are not allowed to cleave more than 14 days post fertilization, and that researchers ...

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