Sperm bank says that you can have kids that "looks like" a celebrity.
A Star is Born, Cryogenically Designer babies going celeb route By HASANI GITTENS<http://www.nbcbayarea.com/results/?keywords=%22HASANI+GITTENS%22&author=y&sort=date> Updated 3:00 PM PDT, Thu, Jan 7, 2010 Print <javascript:void(0);> Share <javascript:void(0);> Buzz up!<http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=nbc_bay_area378&guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.html&targetUrl=> retweet<http://button.topsy.com/retweet?nick=nbcbayarea&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.html&shorturl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa0xf5D&title=A%20Star%20is%20Born%2C%20Cryogenically> 0diggsdigg FACEBOOK <javascript:void(0);> Getty Images Want a baby with the body of Adam Brody<http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Adam+Brody>, the face of Bill Gates <http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Bill+Gates>, or the handsomeness of Tom Hanks<http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Tom+Hanks> ? Now you can have it, for a price... kind of. A Los Angeles <http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Los+Angeles> sperm bank announced today that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like. "The number one client question we get is: 'Who does this donor look like?' " said Scott Brown <http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Scott+Brown> of California Cryobank <http://www.cryobank.com/Donor-Search/Look-A-Likes/>. "We decided this would be a great way to give thorough and consistent answers. Clients love it. Look-a-Likes has only been available for a week and our website traffic is up 50 percent." Brown said the sperm bank is choosy, accepting fewer than 1 percent of people who apply to be donors. The screening process includes genetic testing, regular blood tests, a three-generation family medical history, and a sperm count/quality in the top 15 percent of the population, he said. A group of employees spent six months putting together the photos and matching them to donors. Clients can search for attributes such as height or eye and hair color, and the database will return a list of donors who each have two or three celebrity look-alikes. Users also can choose from an existing library of celebrities to generate a list of matching donors, according to California Cyrobank, which was started in 1977. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
