Code of Massachusetts Regulations
105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Title 105 CMR 960.000 - Biotechnology
Section 960.006 - Purchase, Sale, Transfer, Receipt and Donation of Embryos, Human Gametes or Cadaveric Tissue
Universal Citation: 105 MA Code of Regs 105.960
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(A) No person shall knowingly and for valuable consideration, purchase, sell, transfer or otherwise obtain embryos, human gametes or cadaveric tissue for research purposes.
(B) Persons may bank or donate their gametes for personal future use and may donate their gametes to another person or may donate their gametes for research.
(C) Persons from whose cells a pre-implantation embryo has originated or will originate may donate such pre-implantation embryo or cells to another person for research:
(1) In the absence of valuable
consideration;
(2) After the
fulfillment of the requirements of informed consent;
(3) Provided that the pre-implantation
embryo, if created by the method of fertilization, was not knowingly created
with the sole intent of donating the resultant embryo for research;
and
(4) Provided that the recipient
of the pre-implantation embryo shall use the extant or resultant
pre-implantation embryo in biomedical research and shall not transfer the
pre-implantation embryo to a uterus or uterine-like environment or nurture the
pre-implantation embryo beyond 14 days of development.
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