November 13, 2024

Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

(Wired) – San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors’ bone marrow in recent months. A donor must have closely matched genes for human leukocyte antigens, or HLA, to be … Read More



 
 

February 22, 2024

Embryo Loss Is Integral to IVF. Alabama’s Ruling Equating Embryos with Children Jeopardizes Its Practice

(STAT News) – While embryos can be transferred without freezing, cryopreservation helps avoid transferring multiple embryos at once and allows for delayed transfer when, for instance, someone is undergoing medical treatments such as chemotherapy. This means frozen embryos, as well … Read More