Gender-Selection Technique Embraced for Hopeful Parents

In response to growing numbers of couples who want to choose the sex of their next child, the Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area it now is offering an alternative gender-selection technique with fewer moral and ethical dilemmas. The Ericsson method is based on manipulation of sperm -- not an embryo. The technique employs a centrifugation process, known as "sperm sorting," which allows embryologists to choose sperm with X- or Y- bearing chromosomes that provide three in four odds of determining the correct gender. PR Newswire