by Tabitha M Powledge
NEWS ANALYSIS	Mixed-sex embryo controversy Email: Tabitha M Powledge - tam@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030708-01 Published   8 July 2003

Fertility scientists are joining ethicists and antiabortion activists in criticizing a researcher's claim that he has created chimeric human embryos that are part male and part female. Scientists doubt the usefulness of work presented by Norbert Gleicher last week at the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Madrid. ESHRE condemned the work immediately after it was presented.

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