What we wish we knew about every embryo chosen for transfer

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On August 27, 2001, Stephen Jay Gould published an opinion piece in The New York Times entitled “What only the embryo knows.” His typically provocative writings on this day were aimed at the nascent field of stem cell biology and in direct response to President Bush’s recently announced moratorium banning the development of additional embryonic stem cell lines, but approving use of those already established for medical research. Gould had a vested interest in seeing stem cell research move forward as an avenue to the amelioration or even eradication of life-threatening diseases, and closes by noting that “…. we will marvel (someday) that we ever rejected a pathway toward knowledge so imbued with life-saving capacity.” He would succumb from cancer 207 days later. …