{"id":151,"date":"2009-08-28T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-08-28T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:32:49","slug":"an-odd-corner-of-the-human-fertility-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"An odd corner of the human fertility industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting together the reading list for the seminar class this semester I ran across an odd corner of the human fertility industry that I never knew existed.  I&#8217;m picking seminal papers in biotechnology and one of them is the 1992 paper, &#8220;Birth of a normal girl after in vitro fertilization and preimplantation diagnostic testing for cystic fibrosis&#8221; by Handyside et al.  One of a pair of papers that first used PCR to test embryos for genetic disease so that the disease free ones can be implanted. <\/p>\n<p>So I looked at where preimplantation diagnostic testing was available in Lexington.  There is an IVF clinic that does preimplantation testing&#8211;not at the UK hospital, they seem shy of anything slightly controversial.  What was odd, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdlinc.biz\/productcart\/pc\/home.asp\">ZDL<\/a>, a company that sells fertility products for people to use at home, or send in for analysis.  Home sperm counts, insemination devices, and more.  Quite surprising!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/insem.jpg\" alt=\"Insemination device\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting together the reading list for the seminar class this semester I ran across an odd corner of the human fertility industry that I never knew existed. I&#8217;m picking seminal papers in biotechnology and one of them is the 1992 paper, &#8220;Birth of a normal girl after in vitro fertilization and preimplantation diagnostic testing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}