Couples order babies' sex at US clinic

An American fertility clinic is using a "sex-sorting" machine on the father's sperm to give couples babies with the gender they've ordered.

Couples order babies' sex at US clinic
Thu, 05 Jul, 2001 - 09:08

An American fertility clinic is using a "sex-sorting" machine on the father's sperm to give couples babies with the gender they've ordered.

The MicroSort system used by the Genetics And IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virginia, tags and separates sperm carrying male and female chromosomes.

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CourtsHeathrowPlace: USPlace: Fairfax, VirginiaPlace: BritainOrganisation: Genetics And IVF InstituteOrganisation: Human Fertilisation and Embryology AuthorityOrganisation: IVF
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