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Medical advice
New techniques determine sex of child
The age old search for the child
that not only has your good looks
but is of the desired sex may be
over
The good looks of the child is up
to you The sex of that child can
now be determined with a fair
amount of accuracy in the clinic
The basis for this claim is a new
technique called sperm sépara
tion The principle it works under
is that the male sperm is basically
different from the female sperm
Fundamentally, the male sperm
carries a single Y chromosome,
while the female sperm ( both male
and female sperm are made by the
m a le ) c a r r ie s a s in g le X
chromosome
The ovum they will fertilize is a
single X chromosome X plus X
yields a female child X plus Y
yields a male child,
A
c h ro m o so m e
c a rr ie s
thousands of genes that will deter
mine what the child will look like
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The sperm separation is based
on the fact that the male sperm
carrying the Y chromosome moves
faster. Y chromosomes being
about one third the size of the
heavier X chromosomes of the
female
The male sperm also has an elec
trical charge on its cell being the
exact opposite of female sperm
and thus they can be attracted to
different poles in a magnetic field
One such sperm separation
method has a success rate of 80
p erc en t in p ro du cin g m a le
children Newer techniques are
also producing comparable sue
cess achieving female children
Konald Ericsson, Hh D , has a
protocol where first the sperm is
diluted, then they swim through a
column of human serum albumin
This allows only the faster, more
m o tile m ale sperm to pass
through
This sperm is then collected,
concentrated and injected directly
through the cervical canal into the
uterus The total number of sperm
injected, five m illio n , would
qualify the man as being infertile,
having not produced the normal
100 million sperm per ejaculate.
But these five million sperm are
the healthiest and fastest moving
sperm and are able to reach the
egg without trouble
Actually this method was con
ceived as a means to increase fe r
tility and this has been the happy
byproduct.
The results have been im
pressive Of 110 births, 90 have
been males, an 82 percent rate
The method requires in 80 per
cent of the cases three or less in
seminations for conception
Now all this has been nice from
the male child's perspective What
of the desire for a female child*’
A newer technique is being
perfected by Dr James Danielle of
Ethics now enter in as to what if
the wrong sex has been conceived
After amniocentesis, the sex can
be determined in utero in the se
cond trimester.
It the patient desires then to
abort, the ethics of that choice
takes on paramount importance
for the physician as well
Some doctors refuse to accept
patients who will abort the fetus if
the wrong sex is conceived Others
do not care and leave it up to the
patient to decide
Admittedly, patients selected to
day are more “ radical” in their
desire for the sex of their choice
and currently abortion is more of
an issue
As the procedure becomes more
common place, much more or
dinary patients will be selected for
these procedures
the Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine. Nashville It is called
convection streaming galvaniza
tion and was originally developed
by Bhairad Bhallacharya of Ap
plied Genetics, New Brunswick.
NJ
M ale sperm are negatively
charged and will in cooled solution
swim to a positive pole Eemale
sperm, being positively charged,
swim to the opposite negative pole
The purity of this technique is 75 to
80 percent of the desired sperm
More importantly, healthy female
sperm have now been isolated
M a r v in
H u tch in s o n
has
developed a separation technique
using antigen sites on the male
sperm to bind them up. allowing
the female sperm to swim free and
be collected Purity of 92 to 93 per
cent is achieved this way.
Male sperm can then, by en
zymes. be freed up and also col
lected with 92 to 93 percent purity
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