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Collected "Seed"   David Plotz   Jun 07, 2005   Seed  
The Genius Factory
My short, scary career as a sperm donor.   		David Plotz   Jun 07, 2005   Seed  
When Donor White Met Joy
Slate helped the Nobel Prize sperm bank's "Donor White" and his biological daughter find each other. Here's what happened when they met.   		David Plotz   Dec 20, 2002   Seed  
Donor White Meets His Daughter
Fifteen months ago, Slate helped a mother search for the Nobel Prize sperm bank's "Donor White"—the genetic father of her daughter. We just found him.   		David Plotz   Aug 07, 2002   Seed  
The "Genius Babies" Grow Up
What happened to 15 children from the Nobel Prize sperm bank?   		David Plotz   May 30, 2001   Seed  
The Rise of the Smart Sperm Shopper
How the Repository for Germinal Choice accidentally revolutionized sperm banking.   		David Plotz   Apr 20, 2001   Seed  
Do "Superbabies" Have Super Parents?   David Plotz   Apr 13, 2001   Seed  
No Nobels, One "Failure," a Few Regrets
How did the genius sperm-bank donors turn out?   		David Plotz   Mar 30, 2001   Seed  
The Nobel Sperm Bank Celebrity
Since his birth, brilliant, precocious Doron Blake has symbolized the Repository for Germinal Choice. Now the "superbaby" is an 18-year-old college freshman, and he's longing to be normal.   		David Plotz   Mar 16, 2001   Seed  
The Better Baby Business
The Nobel sperm bank wasn't the first scheme to breed "superbabies." The weird history of "positive" eugenics.   		David Plotz   Mar 13, 2001   Seed  
Still Searching for Donor White (or Coral, or Fuchsia …)
The latest on the "Nobel Prize sperm bank" investigation.   		David Plotz   Mar 07, 2001   Seed  
A Mother Searches for "Donor White"
Ten years ago, she used his sperm to have a daughter. Now she wants to find him, and he wants to find her. But they don't know each other's names.   		David Plotz   Feb 27, 2001   Seed  
An Update and a Preview   David Plotz   Feb 23, 2001   Seed  
The Myths of the Nobel Sperm Bank
The truth about who gave sperm, how they gave it, and who used it.   		David Plotz   Feb 23, 2001   Seed  
The First Responses
Two donors, four moms, a possible hoax, many promising stories.   		David Plotz   Feb 14, 2001   Seed  
"The Entrepreneur" Speaks
A donor tells why he gave the Repository for Germinal Choice his Grade A sperm.   		David Plotz   Feb 13, 2001   Seed  
The "Genius Babies," and How They Grew
Help Slate tell the story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank.   		David Plotz   Feb 08, 2001   Seed  

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