1.   Embryo adoption is the term used when a couple who are both infertile receive a spare frozen embryo created by another couple during their own in vitro fertilization.

2.   For couples who cannot conceive using their own eggs or sperm, embryo adoption is an inexpensive alternative.

3.   In Britain, embryo adoption is tightly regulated.

4.   Julie Watson, a fertility consultant who runs Conceiving Concepts, does not organize embryo adoption herself but gives couples information on where to go for treatment.

5.   Other programs, such as one run by the University of Iowa Health Center, also arrange embryo adoption.

6.   Scott said he had helped arrange a handful of embryo adoptions over the past five years.