As part of an agreement signed this week with the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, the university will train scientists from developing countries in in-vitro and cryogenic techniques.
"Couples seeking IVF treatment should consider reaching some agreement about what is to happen to their embryos if they separate and also if the genetic father dies before transfer of the embryo to the woman, " she said.
Rowley's discoveries of chromosome abnormalities in leukemia secured a common agreement among scientists, physicians and the general public that cancer is, in fact, a genetic disease.