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—ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC, author of Random Family
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

In Vitro Fertilization Connected to Birth Defects — Again. Problems With Lack of Regulation and Safety Testing in the Infertility Business

A new CDC study finds that IVF babies have increased risk of birth defects. This is nothing new. Skloot discusses the history, lack of safety trials and regulation, plus extreme treatments, including the growth of human embryos using monkey uterus and cloning-like technology


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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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