<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">I&#39;m seeking advice/knowledge on how to deal with human embryos.  Its been</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">brought to my attention that there is a &quot;collection&quot; of human embryos on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">our campus (several jars, different stages of development ranging from</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">around 4 weeks to 28 weeks) that are used in two classes for teaching</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">purposes (examination only through the jars).  They were brought here</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">around 30 years ago by a former graduate student that was working for a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">professor/surgical doctor in Chicago who had a duplicate set and allowed the student to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">bring them here.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">There&#39;s of course no paperwork associated with them, but I&#39;m thinking this</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">is a bomb waiting to go off for us, and I&#39;m not really sure where to begin</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">in dealing with this (mind you, they were in the biology department, but</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">they wanted to know if we wanted to officially accession them into our</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">museum collection.  As a member of the department as well, seems like we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">need to deal with legalities either way).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">Any thoughts for me on this?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">Thanks,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px">Kirsten</span></span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>
<br></div>-- <br><font face="&#39;times new roman&#39;, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#006600">Kirsten E. Nicholson, Ph.D<br><br><i><font size="1">Assoc. Prof. Biology          and       Curator of Natural History<br>
Dept. of Biology                             Museum of Cultural and Natural History<br>217 Brooks Hall                            103 Rowe Hall<br>Central Michigan Univ.                 Central Michigan University <br>Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859                 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859<br>
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