the 75 embryos, only 53 had normal timing, normal cell division. but the big surprise of the 53 that looked normal, half had the wrong number of chromosomes. >> it's quite profound that embryos that appear to be developing normally may harbor such a high percentage or such a high degree of chromosomal abnormalities. >> reporter: dr. barry behr, codirector of the ivf program, says where fragmentation comes n those extra bubbles are fragments that contain chromosomes and that spells trouble. >> should be 23 pairs in total chromosomes. if you have a mismatch or an extra one or a missing one, you create an abnormal embryo. >> reporter: so now with this two-pronged approach with screening embryos looking at timing and fragments they are able to spot the best of the bunch. now, as for the cause of these chromosomal abnormalities, it takes two to tango. we know the egg is a major driver in the success of pregnancy. but dr. behr says we cannot ignore the male gamete that the sperm also contributes to the success or failure of the embryo. and to a larger de

embryos for research, that is allowed, but you cannot create an embryo specifically for research purposes, that is not allowed. bizarrely, the derivation of human embryonic cells was used to clone dolly the sheep. now, we're allowed to do animal research, but you're not allowed to use this technique for humans. >> one quick translation, somatic cells are skin cells. >> yes, anything other than the sexual cells. what this technology does is if you can take a nucleus out of a body cell, so let's say i take a nucleus out of one of my skin cells, you could then take that and put it in a human egg cell or another embryonic stem cell, and you can shock that and, hopefully, if everything works right, you can then create a clone of cells it is that is bay just my dna. now, the scary part of the technology is, well, will we be cloning people in the future, and that is banned. i think that's probably a good idea to pan that. what we do need, however, is this technology for cloning organs. so if you want to clone a new heart, a new liver, this technique is almost certainly going to be necessary in o

and you can take someone's stem cell from skin -- not from embryo -- the results and the controversy,get stem cells or your own cells and put them on a scaffold. a plastic. now, these cells, they can grow if they are close to each other. the proximity can work and you can create a new trachea and put it back in-- >>> how many years are you talking about this? if you go to the doctor now? >> it sounds so high tech. >> it's here! >> for bladder, we have done this -- >> trachea, they did it in sweden. >> we are going to intest and i know heart valve. pancreas, liver and nerves take longer. but this is going to revolutionize. the fact that you can take someone's cells and regrow it into many cell, put it on a scaffold and let it grow and implant it, that's going to change the transplant field. because it's your cell, you don't need the steroids or medications that we used to give you and the rate of rejection is going to be really small. so this is great. >> eric: a medical miracle. >> that's amazing. back with sunday house call, do you have a fear of needles? stay tuned. [ sniffs ] i hav

he was egypt in the embryo stage for so long.is: i do not need to name names here, but to your point about growing up fast, you have been around a lot of people, artists who were once great that are no longer here. trouble navigating certain aspects of their lives. what do you take from that? when you talk about your own challenges and fears and troubles? how do you manage? for those on the outside, you have ups and downs, but you are putting up music. you are married now and have a baby. you are transparent with all of that in your miracle content. you seem to be to us well adjusted. >> thank you. tavis: how are you navigating? >> it is definitely a navigation. i think most incredibly what i have discovered is that it is mental. and it is your state of mind as to how your life becomes and is. i think what happens in this world, somehow, we get caught upped where things that do not really matter start to matter, and it starts to get confusing as to what you hold true for yourself, so for me, i think a lot of that comes from being

but yaminaka discovered a kind of stem cell that prevents the need to tee destroy human embryos and create embryonic stem cells. he would be sharing the nobel prize this year. coming around to the question. here's president bush's policy, put in place to stop incentivizing and stop the funding -- prevent the funding of the destruction of human embree wyoming in the name of research, creation and destruction of human embree -- imby -- embryos, and it encouraged -- ended in a nobel prize. so here's the question. i think that's is a challenge the antiscience and pro science rubric, and i wonder if you'd say that in fact it can withstand that sort of thing as we look at it over time, whether it's a little bit of a too shallow way of looking at things whether it's chris mooney on the left and the approach you have here. the things are more complicate than pro science or antiscience would have thought. >> you're absolutely correct there is a role for bioethics in science, okay and n and i would be hesitant to call someone antiscience if they are objecting to something on biothal grounds. you can

senior debt claims floating rate debt claims of companies that have been through leveraged buyouts embryos and the like now these are leveraged companies but you as an investor a command the senior most capital position in that and these loans did very well as a credit that you very well in terms of credit and repayment and the whole experience even in two thousand and seven eight and nine and his fund shield from four and a half to five and five plus there was also a class of income producing asset called the business development company i think ari's and column both have the d.c. user listed new york stock exchange the prices of these can be volatile but again the credit experience of both of them has been very good over very difficult cycles and they both yield above eight percent all right well there you have a couple attempts in this world of no yield or low yield where you have found some to tell us about i appreciate it not to harp on the fed too much i just want to get one more insight from you on it because we did have the announcement from ben bernanke you earlier this week and i

get these embryonic stem cells that were destroying the embryo. 40,000 embryos are discarded because they won't pay for keeping them. they are frozen and discadded and the argument is you can take one of these discarded embryos and you can crush it and get the stem cells from it. before you do that, you look at it under the microscope and there you see it, living tissue. gee, that might be the next albert einstein. when you are talking about collectively 40,000, it's easy to say, they can be discarded. unique human beings, give it a chance to be implanted and to grow in the womb. but i knew we could get cells from these early embryos. how did i know that? how was i so sure? you can take half the cells from an early embryo and goes on to develop a perfectly good child, infant. how do i know that? because the other half of those cells went on to produce another perfectly good twin. and in every case of twins that you see, identical twins that you see, half of the cells were taken from the embryo and the other half went on -- the chairman of the president's commission on ethical embryon

eyes, embryos, so for us. not much to see, but if they hurt me. it's starting to develop layer by layer. even as adults we have to be a prerequisite before we can learn the subject material. i neo cortex is still to. issues that some people have created a hierarchy of the useful fashion than others for a particular task. someone like einstein has been very well organized or is it very well organized music. >> i want to get back to the whole importance of learning and how computers are. but first i wanted to ask you, why do we want to create reverse engineer the brain? why do we want to create this computer software brain? >> guest: three reasons. one is to do a better job of picturing the brain. i quote one of the pioneers that were not treating the brain -- [inaudible] [inaudible] but it's really not work and we understand how it works that can do a better job of fixing problems. secondly, it will provide the biologically inspired method to create more intelligent machines. there's already some intelligence in machines every time we do a search o

. >> reporter: in his lab, fertilized embryos are genetically analyzed. only those with the desired sex rim planted into the mother's uterus. dr. steinberg says a growing number of couples from the bay area use his services. >> the numbers keep going up and up and up. >> reporter: dr. steinberg says in his experience just as many want a girl as a boy. even so, the use of the technology troubles dr. marcy darnofski. >> now we have a way to do it. the question is, should we? >> reporter: she is associate director at the center for genetics in society in berkeley. she says when a couple spends thousands of dollars to produce a boy or a girl, they want results. >> what if the child doesn't meet their expectations? what do they do? take her back? they wanted a boy to play basketball with his dad? instead they got a boy who wants to write poetry. do they take him back? >> reporter: she believes these expectations may severely limit what a child can do. >> it reinforces very extreme and rigid gender roles that we're really i think trying to move beyond in our so

this june so embryo with their grandchild, billy. let me tell you how things went for the manbo family towards the end. do you miss -- eunice when she turned 18 last camp, went to the midwest and took a secretarial job. have a left to do some agricultural work and then he volunteered in the united states army. build the photographer left for cleveland to find work in a factory that are. towards the end of 1944, june so decided he wants to see if he can get work in new jersey at seabrook farms, which is a thriving enterprise was recruiting japanese-americans. so these can't been followed october 44, has two new jersey to scope the situation now. at that point, sammy is gone, bill is gone, eunice is gone. the only people left are radio and mary and little billy. maria suffers but doctors called a nervous break down. she ends up in the hospital and for the rest britannic camp, and other nearly here at camp, rio is suffering greatly and really unable to work from the barely able to leave the barracks. she's something of an invalid for th

potential of developing this hierarchy, starts at the lowest level of the hierarchy, the fetus's eyes, embryos, those patterns of light and dark, starting to develop the neocortex layer by layer. even as adults we have to learn the prerequisite before we can learn new subject material but we have the added challenge to get something because the neocortex is filled the. the idea that we use 10% of the brain is not correct that some people have created this hierarchy of the neocortex in a new -- more useful fashion than others for particular tasks. einstein had it very well organized for doing physics, beethoven and it will organize for music and so on. >> host: back to the importance of learning and how computers learn, i wanted to ask you, why do we want to create reverse engineer the brain? why do we want to create this computer software brain? >> guest: three reasons. one is too a better job fixing of the brain. i quote one of the pioneers saying we're treating brain circuitry rather than a chemical soup. something like this as our i s --sri drugs treating the brain like a chemical soup. is

when a human egg becomes a human embryo, that is life. it cannot be anything but a human being. i wish there were more people committed to science and they wouldn't ignore that scientific fact. they are pretty brave about saying the age of the earth and science has definitively said life begins at conception. >> why did your comments about the age of the earth cause such a raucus? >> in that group or that people -- not a sing -- not a single person at the supermarket asked me about that. >> there is a world beyond the blogoatmosphere? >> i like this kind of stuff and talk further about things i believe in. >> do you regret your answer to "gq"? >> i wish i would have given a better answer. we were talking about hip-hop and then went talking about the earth. got me off the road. that was the point i was trying to make. >> you are irritated about the question? >> i wasn't. i thought i was making a point and if i had minutes to think about it, i would have been more clear. not the worst thing that has ever happened to me. >> is homosexuality a sin? >> the faith teaches that it is an

when an egg is an embryo, that's a human life, nothing but a human being. that's -- i wish there were more folks in the town who were, you know, deeply committed to science and believe in science would not ignore that scientific fact. they are brave about the age of the earth, but can't say when life begins? they pretend it's a mystery. science established life begins at conception. >> why did your comments about the age of the earth cause a ruckus? >> well, first of all, i think it caused a ruckus, you know, in that group or in that people -- i mean, like, not a single person at the supermarket asked me about it the day before thanksgiving. be clear perspective here, but, look, i love -- >> there's a world beyond the blogs? >> yes, there is, and beyond washington, by the way, and so let me say this. i'm fine. i like this stuff. it's good. if i say something that triggers conversation and allows me the opportunity to talk further about what i believe in, i'm happy with that. >> do you regret your answer? >> i don't regret it. i wish i would have, you know,

people buy our embryos from all over the world.lly proud of that. >> if i can break in and tell you a funny story about that. we owned the shoe company for 30 years. he's our partner for 30 years. we've owned the farm for ten years. so the guys at work on the farm, they knew we owned manol manolo blanik. when their girlfriends started watching "sex in the city" and the shoes became popular, then it became a big deal. then it became, wow, we had no idea. so it was very funny. until "sex in the city," they knew manolo blanik, but they didn't know. so thank you very much. >> just to add to that, even the gas station attendants will say, oh, my god, manolo blanik. >> speaking of which, can we talk shoes for a moment? >> i never thought those words would come out of your mouth, carl. >> i have bought these shoes before. >> keep buying them, please. >> i probably will. how is it holding up? we keep hearing about consumers deleveraging. but then we're hearing they're no longer deleveraging as much. are people more willing to splurge? >> i