The world’s media attention is currently focused on a legal battle underway in Thailand between homosexual partners and a surrogate mother. On finding out that the intended parents were homosexuals, Mrs. Kusolsang, the surrogate mother, changed her mind and did not sign the relevant passport documentation for the child she had already handed over
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Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research, UK fertility regulatorsannounced. The 1 February approval by the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) represents the world’s first endorsement of such research by a national regulatory authority. “It’s an important first. The HFEA has been a very thoughtful,
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Two senior judges have allowed a 60-year-old woman to continue to fight an extraordinary legal battle that may allow her to give birth to her dead daughter’s baby. The woman, who would be at least 61 by the time the child is conceived, has been given the right to appeal against a High Court decision
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Certainly, the choice of the egg donor is the most important step for parents, who need woman’s genetic material. Nature is a multi-faceted thing, and the main expert`s task of reproductive medicine clinics is to anticipate it and predict the outcome. Today, there was developed a unique method of 3D modeling appearance of a child,
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In China, scientists have grown sperm in the laboratory. Male germ cells were created in the artificial conditions by means of which mice were subsequently inseminated. The experiment was successful and there was brought ultimately healthy offspring. Spermatids were managed to grow from the stem cell by research team, led by Xiao-Yang Zhao. They hoisted
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MRI of the cervix is more accurate than ultrasound at predicting if some women will have a preterm birth, according to a new study from Italy appearing in the online edition of Radiology. Early dilation of the cervix, a neck of tissue connecting the uterus with the vagina, during pregnancy can lead to premature delivery. Women in their second
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A stark difference in appearances of twins born to a couple in Vietnam led them to take the children for DNA testing, which confirmed the twins had different fathers. The unidentified twins were taken to a lab in Hanoi after the father’s suspicions grew leading him to confirm whether or not he was the children’s
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A study in the journal Fertility and Sterility has found that children born from assisted reproduction are as healthy and well-educated as their naturally conceived peers. Lead researcher Jane Halliday, of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, wrote about her work in The Conversation. She said that: “most IVF offspring have grown into
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The UK’s first womb transplant is set to take place next year as part of a clinical trial in which 10 women will get the chance to carry their own babies. Following the birth of a baby boy last year after a successful procedure in Sweden, the Health Research Authority has granted ethical approval for 10
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Boston researchers conducting a prospective cohort study found that women who already had children, who were older, current smokers, or had a higher BMI were less likely to report having a medical evaluation for infertility than younger, slimmer, non-smoking, childless women. Using data from the Nurses’ Health Study II, researchers at Harvard’s TH Chan School
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