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Russian-Born Harvard Researcher Charged With Smuggling Frog Embryos Into US
The scientist, 30-year-old Kseniia Petrova, was arrested earlier this year and placed in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre.
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Are We Creating 'Superhumans'? US Startup Offers IQ Screening For Embryos
A US startup, Heliospect Genomics, is offering wealthy couples the option to test embryos for IQ amid growing ethical debates over genetic modification.
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Over 10 US Couples Sue IVF Clinic, Alleging Staff Implanted "Dead, Toxic" Embryos
Around 10 couples in the United States are suing an in vitro fertility (IVF) provider saying it implanted dead and toxic embryos despite knowing they were non-viable.
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Frozen Embryos Created Through IVF Are Babies, Says Nikki Haley
Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she considers frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization "babies," siding with the Alabama Supreme Court on an issue that resonates with conservative voters.
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US Court Declares Frozen Embryos As "Children". What It Means
The far-reaching implications of this decision are raising concerns among legal experts, medical professionals, and reproductive rights advocates.
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US Couple Welcomes Twins Born From Embryos Frozen 30 Years Ago, Breaks Record
The National Embryo Donation Center says the twins, named Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway, are the longest-frozen embryos to result in a live birth.
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Who Gets The Embryos? Whoever Wants To Make Them Into Babies: New Law
When their marriage fell apart, the most contentious issue between Ruby Torres and John Joseph Terrell was the fate of their frozen embryos. There were seven in storage, created with her eggs and his sperm before Torres underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer.
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US Fertility Clinic Informs Hundreds Their Eggs May Have Been Damaged
A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic had a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank in which thousands of eggs and embryos are kept frozen for future use, jeopardizing the tissue that hundreds of women have deposited there in hope of having children.
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Woman Gives Birth From Longest Known Frozen Human Embryo
A US woman has successfully delivered a baby with a 25-year-old frozen embryo -- the longest known frozen human embryo.
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Modification Of Genes In Human Embryos
Scientists are very close to snipping inherited genetic diseases out of human offspring using a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. For the first time, scientists said, they corrected a gene mutation linked to inherited heart conditions in human embryos using the approach.
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First Human Embryo Editing Experiment In US 'Corrects' Gene For Heart Condition
The work is particularly sensitive because it involves changes to the germ line, genes that could be passed on to future generations.
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Designer Baby Next? US Scientists Modify Genes Of Human Embryo
A group of scientists in the US have taken the first steps in tweaking the genes in the human embryo - a subject fraught with fears of an eventual designer baby and a minefield of ethical dilemma. The scientists say their research has the potential to eliminate diseases that run through some families.
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First Genetically Modified Human Embryos In US May Open Gates To 'Designer Babies'
The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University in the US, involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the controversial gene-editing technique CRISPR.
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Bombay High Court Asks US Couple To Approach Government To Take Back Embryos
In a legal spill-over of the ban on commercial surrogacy, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed an American couple to make a representation to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and Department of Family Welfare to allow them take back to their country eight embryos kept by them in a hospital in Mumbai.
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US Couple Urge Bombay High Court To Return Embryos As India Bans Surrogacy
The Bombay High Court today directed that Director General of Foreign Trade and Department of Family Welfare of the Centre be made parties to a petition filed by a US couple who want to take back their eight embryos kept in a city hospital following a recent ban by the Indian government on commercial surrogacy.
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Russian-Born Harvard Researcher Charged With Smuggling Frog Embryos Into US
The scientist, 30-year-old Kseniia Petrova, was arrested earlier this year and placed in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre.
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Are We Creating 'Superhumans'? US Startup Offers IQ Screening For Embryos
A US startup, Heliospect Genomics, is offering wealthy couples the option to test embryos for IQ amid growing ethical debates over genetic modification.
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Over 10 US Couples Sue IVF Clinic, Alleging Staff Implanted "Dead, Toxic" Embryos
Around 10 couples in the United States are suing an in vitro fertility (IVF) provider saying it implanted dead and toxic embryos despite knowing they were non-viable.
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Frozen Embryos Created Through IVF Are Babies, Says Nikki Haley
Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she considers frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization "babies," siding with the Alabama Supreme Court on an issue that resonates with conservative voters.
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US Court Declares Frozen Embryos As "Children". What It Means
The far-reaching implications of this decision are raising concerns among legal experts, medical professionals, and reproductive rights advocates.
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US Couple Welcomes Twins Born From Embryos Frozen 30 Years Ago, Breaks Record
The National Embryo Donation Center says the twins, named Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway, are the longest-frozen embryos to result in a live birth.
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Who Gets The Embryos? Whoever Wants To Make Them Into Babies: New Law
When their marriage fell apart, the most contentious issue between Ruby Torres and John Joseph Terrell was the fate of their frozen embryos. There were seven in storage, created with her eggs and his sperm before Torres underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment for breast cancer.
-
US Fertility Clinic Informs Hundreds Their Eggs May Have Been Damaged
A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic had a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank in which thousands of eggs and embryos are kept frozen for future use, jeopardizing the tissue that hundreds of women have deposited there in hope of having children.
-
Woman Gives Birth From Longest Known Frozen Human Embryo
A US woman has successfully delivered a baby with a 25-year-old frozen embryo -- the longest known frozen human embryo.
-
Modification Of Genes In Human Embryos
Scientists are very close to snipping inherited genetic diseases out of human offspring using a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. For the first time, scientists said, they corrected a gene mutation linked to inherited heart conditions in human embryos using the approach.
-
First Human Embryo Editing Experiment In US 'Corrects' Gene For Heart Condition
The work is particularly sensitive because it involves changes to the germ line, genes that could be passed on to future generations.
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Designer Baby Next? US Scientists Modify Genes Of Human Embryo
A group of scientists in the US have taken the first steps in tweaking the genes in the human embryo - a subject fraught with fears of an eventual designer baby and a minefield of ethical dilemma. The scientists say their research has the potential to eliminate diseases that run through some families.
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First Genetically Modified Human Embryos In US May Open Gates To 'Designer Babies'
The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University in the US, involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the controversial gene-editing technique CRISPR.
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Bombay High Court Asks US Couple To Approach Government To Take Back Embryos
In a legal spill-over of the ban on commercial surrogacy, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed an American couple to make a representation to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and Department of Family Welfare to allow them take back to their country eight embryos kept by them in a hospital in Mumbai.
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US Couple Urge Bombay High Court To Return Embryos As India Bans Surrogacy
The Bombay High Court today directed that Director General of Foreign Trade and Department of Family Welfare of the Centre be made parties to a petition filed by a US couple who want to take back their eight embryos kept in a city hospital following a recent ban by the Indian government on commercial surrogacy.
