Women’s Eggs for Research: Without Payment?

Should women be paid to provide their eggs for cloning-based stem cell research? Political discussion of that controversial prospect has stalled, in large part because researchers have not succeeded in producing stem cell lines with cloning techniques. But some companies continue these efforts. Others are producing stem cells using the technique known as parthenogenesis, which also requires women’s eggs. And in spite of international attention to iPS cells, new proposals to acquire the coveted resource are emerging.
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