Fertility and Sterility
Volume 78, Issue 5 , Pages 957-960 , November 2002

Donating spare embryos for embryonic stem-cell research1

  • Ethics Committee

      Affiliations

    • American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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Fertility and Sterility
Volume 78, Issue 5 , Pages 957-960 , November 2002

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