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More than half of infertile couples may be willing to donate unused embryos to stem cell research
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!In a survey of over a thousand patients who have created and frozen embryos as part of fertility treatment, 60 percent said they would be likely to donate unused embryos for stem cell research, according to a study led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University.
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