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February 05, 2006
RFID/IVF/HFEA and other acronymous details follow:
In from "The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service," NewScientist.com, an article dealing with electronic tags for eggs, sperm and embryos.
"The idea...is that an alarm will sound if the wrong eggs and sperm are brought close to one another, for instance, or if a doctor attempts to collect the wrong embryo to implant into a mother-to-be."
But is it safe?
"In Research Instruments’ tests, the tags transmitted continuously for four days without any perceptible effect on the embryos. Though the tests are not complete, “it looks very, very good that there’s going to be no problem with it,” David Lansdowne, technical director at the company told New Scientist."
whew.
Posted by ajs510 at February 5, 2006 08:39 PM