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Corneas, tendons and bones from the dead, packed in bed pillow-size packages, arrive regularly by overnight delivery at Tissue Banks International. This nonprofit tissue processor, located in a nondescript office park near San Francisco, makes about 300 products surgeons use to fix torn knee ligaments, bad backs, burned skin and …

WASHINGTON – In response to congressional complaints about its monitoring of human tissue samples, the National Institutes of Health is planning steps to better account for where and how the samples are being used. The samples are increasingly used to make medical discoveries that improve patient care, but investigators with …

The Chinese want boys, and the Canadians want girls. If they have enough money, they come to the United States to choose the sex of their babies. Well-off foreign couples are getting around laws banning sex selection in their home countries by coming to American soil — where it’s legal …