UBC argued «from a historical and contextual analysis,» property under the provincial statute could only refer to goods that can be traded commercially (since 2004, there has been a prohibition in Canada on the commercial trade of
human sperm under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act).
Not exact matches
Tests rely on either expensive equipment for computer - assisted analysis or, in hospitals that can not afford thousands of dollars» worth of machinery, a technician who analyzes
sperm cells
under a microscope, a process Shafiee says can be subject to
human error.
In 2009, Reijo Pera showed that it is possible to generate functional,
sperm - producing germ cells from
human embryonic stem cells grown
under certain conditions in the laboratory.
In their study, to be published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of Jan. 26 - 30, researchers from Fukui Prefectural University in Obama, Japan, and the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), describe the innovative techniques they used to produce genetically modified zebrafish using
sperm cells grown
under laboratory, or «in vitro,» conditions.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has determined that
human sperm is «property»
under the terms of a provincial statute that regulates the storage of goods.