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University Hospitals has notified about 700 fertility patients and their families that the frozen eggs and embryos they had stored at one of its hospitals may have been damaged over the weekend when the temperature rose in a storage tank.
The problem, in one of two large freezers preserving specimens at the UH Fertility Center housed at the Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, was discovered on Sunday morning. It occurred some time after staff left the previous afternoon, according to Patti DePompei, president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital.
The liquid nitrogen freezer held about 2,000 egg and embryo specimens, according to Dr. James Liu, chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UH Cleveland Medical Center. Some patients had more than one sample stored, and some of the samples were provided as long ago as the 1980's.
Also at Newsweek.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @07:33PM (1 child)
Eggs and sperm from living people may be created from stem cells. It has been shown that sperm can be made from skin. No, this won't be cheap.
Dead people are more trouble. Find the sequence from personal belongings or infer it from close relatives and physical appearance. Take cells from close relatives, then mix and match until all the chromosomes are correct. This may require some engineering work.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @08:12PM
She screamed. Oh, did she scream. But the more she screamed, the more disgusting the man's grin became and the more violence he dispensed; it was a negative feedback loop for the woman, but a very, very positive one for the man. This eventually culminated in a bone-chilling crack.
Minutes later, a bystander spotted a man performing a childish dance near the corpse of a naked woman; he had reached the pinnacle of happiness, causing all who saw him to smile.