Many of the fertility clinics that market egg-freezing services already offer options for screening.
The connection is that embryos for stem cell research primarily come from fertility clinics.
As the nation's economy is slumping, some fertility clinics say interest in donating has surged.
The tests will use stem cells cultured from embryos left over in fertility clinics, which otherwise would have been discarded.
One compromise that Bush reportedly had been considering would have allowed the funding of research using stem cells from the excess embryos at fertility clinics.
The two leading fertility clinics told the Sunday Times the higher success rates of the new technique means they are justified in offering the service.
Edwards noted that stem-cell work uses blastocysts containing clumps of 16 or 32 cells that were collected by fertility clinics but are no longer needed and would otherwise be thrown away.
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This is because US fertility clinics are more likely to implant larger numbers of embryos, both at the request of the patient, and because clinics depend on published success rates to attract custom.
Current rules put in place by the Clinton administration allow federal money for stem-cell research using embryos provided the work is funded by private money and the embryos come from fertility clinics and would otherwise be discarded.
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But legally requiring fertility clinics to disclose to donors at age 18, at minimum, anonymized medical information and actual identifying information unless the donor opts-out ignores both how fertility treatments are provided in the US and the fact that parents are routinely given all that information during the donor selection process.
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Trish Davies, director of regulation at the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA), backed the strategy and said they would be monitoring clinics' performance.
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