Not My Frozen Embryos — But Somebodys
I was discussing our new genapp.io website with Patrick Maxwell of Trainlight Creative. He was in California and we were in Chicago, where embryos can freeze on their own.
Patrick was explaining Medium to me, and I threw out the topic of frozen embryos as something that might be of interest, kind of as a joke. He had no idea what I was talking about until he googled it and the embryo crisis in San Francisco that day, and Cleveland 3 days prior came up.
We had been discussing our business of assuring emergency power to buildings where critical things are happening.
We got the sense of biological storage being critical facilities, when we installed fuel systems for generators at many bio research buildings. It seemed like every university in the country built a bio-research building at that time, and UCSF started building a research campus at Mission Bay in San Francisco, when there wasn’t much out there.
I think there was a flood of funding from NHS, and they no doubt got the ball rolling on some incredible research.
One of those bio research facilities is to this day one of the most beautiful buildings we worked on — The HHMI Janelia Farms building above the Potomac in Ashburn, VA. Another testament to our societies investment in making things better for people, incredible investment in facilities for scientists. This is to the point where the flooring in the building was old growth timber, salvaged from a sunken timber ship in Lake Superior where is was preserved underwater with its dense growth rings. It was beautiful.
Back to the embryos, I don’t know exactly what frozen embryos are all about, but it seems like it is about hope, and new life, and something that people who love each other yearn for. It certainly seems like its worth the effort and technology, however imperfect, to make it safe.
