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FLORIDA WEEKLY PHOTO Above, Dr. Craig Sweet and his staff at the clinic he opened in Fort Myers in 1991, Specialists in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, have taken a rather unusual step, at least for reproductive specialists or endocrinologists; they will not destroy unused embryos from their patients. Left, a Blastocyst is thinwalled hollow structure in early embryonic development that contains a cluster of cells called the inner cell mass from which the embryo arises. This one is five days after fertilization.