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Is adoption the answer to unused frozen embryos?
East Idaho News
You have children, frozen in this cruelly clinical world of suspended animation,” the Rev. Russell Moore, a prominent Southern Baptist leader, has written. Current policy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages surrogate …
The ethics of ‘Snowflake babies’: Is adoption the answer to unused …Great Bend Tribune

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Improve your karma
Daily Pioneer
Because the quality of life of a man in fear is like that of a man in a state of suspended animation and it’s not at all cherishable, relishable, enjoyable or valuable. On the other hand there are other people who question the contention of the former …

Automoblog Book Garage: Amazing Barn Finds & Roadside Relics
Automoblog.net (blog)
You rarely see Corvettes in a state of suspended animation. This mid-’70s Vette has been sitting here for a long time. The owner has a few other toys and enjoys them more frequently, and so the Vette sits in the corner, gathering dust. Photo: Ryan Brutt.

Movie Review: Star power can’t correct awry path of ‘Passengers’
Jefferson City News Tribune
Pratt plays Jim Preston, one of a few thousand people in suspended animation on the Aurora, a spiraling starship hurtling through space on autopilot, headed toward a distant colonized planet, Homestead II. But after a particularly big asteroid dings …

Designer babies: an ethical horror waiting to happen? | Science …
The Guardian
Nearly 40 years since the first ‘test-tube baby’, how close are we to editing out all of our genetic imperfections – and should we even try to do so?

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From Trump to CRISPR Trial, 2017 Brings More Questions Than Answers
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)
CRISPR will also see the first U.S. clinical trial in get under way during 2017, to be led by the University of Pennsylvania, which won approval last year from the NIH’s Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. The Penn-led trial still requires approval by …

Jennifer Graham Deseret News
Great Bend Tribune
You have children, frozen in this cruelly clinical world of suspended animation,” the Rev. Russell Moore, a prominent Southern Baptist leader, has written. Current policy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages surrogate …

Immunotherapy gives hope to some cancer patients
Toronto Sun
Immunotherapy involves boosting the immune system in its fight against cancer. “The big story (is) oncology used to be surgery, radiation, chemotherapy,” Princess Margaret oncologist Dr. Marcus Butler says. “It is not that anymore. It is surgery …