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To the Editor: the Images in Clinical Medicine presented by Schimmel and Crumm (Nov. 3 issue)¹ demonstrate the ultimate in microsurgery: a single cell is manipulated and forever changed. Viewing these two images with the accompanying text, I was left with several questions. Are these images of a human or a nonhuman subject? If the subject was human, what did these manipulations serve to diagnose? Was the procedure successful? Finally, did the embryo survive? Certainly, if it was a human embryo, the procedure must have been approved by an institutional review board.

Daniel K. Hellerstein, M.D.
Palm Beach Medical Group
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