Berthold wiesner biography sample

Bertold Wiesner and his wife Mary Barton founded a fertility clinic in London in the s and helped women conceive 1, babies.

Bertold was born in He passed away in Bertold was an Austrian Jewish physiologist noted for: coining the term 'Psi' to denote parapsychological.

It was thought that the clinic used a small number of highly intelligent friends as sperm donors but it has now emerged that around of the babies were conceived using sperm from Mr Wiesner himself. Two men conceived at the clinic, Barry Stevens a film-maker from Canada and David Gollancz, a barrister in London, have researched the centre and DNA tests suggest Mr Wiesner, an Austrian biologist, provided two thirds of the donated sperm.

Such a practice is outlawed now but at the time it was not known that Mr Wiesner was providing the majority of the samples. The same sperm donor should not be used to create so many children because of the risk that two of the offpsring will unwittingly meet and start a family of their own, which could cause serious genetic problems in their children.

DNA tests were conducted on 18 people conceived at the clinic between and The results showed Lisa Holligan already had two children when she decided to try for another baby.

Turns out Wiesner is rather the opposite of non-paternity, having been the sperm-donor for an estimated children born 40 weeks later in and.

Her first two pregnancies had come easily. Holligan and her husband experienced miscarriage after miscarriage after miscarriage. Ten pregnant women and three others with their babies were repatriated to the Philippines after being pardoned by the Royal Government of Cambodia. The women were recruited to act as surrogates in Cambodia, and were all pregnant at the time The first time Jamie Cassidy was pregnant, the fetus had a genetic mutation so devastating that she and her husband, Brennan, decided to terminate in the second trimester.