An op/ed on the topic of private stem cell banking, written with Stanford University stem cell scientist Eric Chiao, Ph.D, appears today in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Here’s a version of our essay:
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By Christopher Scott and Eric Chiao, Ph.D.
Imagine an infertile couple is visiting an IVF clinic. While there, the clinic manager asks them whether [...]
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