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Human Reproductive Technologies Could Be Used to Save Threatened Animal Species
More and more threatened species are relying on captive breeding to avoid extinction. Some species on the brink only exist in captivity, and others depend on captive breeding for their recovery before they’re released to the wild. Captive breeding programs face major challenges to achieve the best conservation outcomes, particularly high economic costs, and loss…
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The UK Just Granted The First Licence To Commercialise Controversial ‘Three-Parent’ Babies
A fertility clinic in Newcastle was just granted permission to start performing what’s known as the “three-parent baby” technique, a controversial in vitro fertilisation procedure that prevents genetic diseases from being passed on to children by giving them three genetic “parents”.
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Being Single Is Now A Disability, According To The World Health Organisation
According to the Telegraph, the World Health Organisation will change its definition of disabilities to classify people without a sexual partner as “infertile”. The controversial new classifications will make it so that heterosexual single men and women, as well as gay men and women who are seeking in-vitro fertilisation to have a child, will receive…
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Can We Turn Stem Cells Into Eggs?
Northwestern University biologist Jonathan Tilly is certain he’s found egg-making stem cells in adult mice. If he’s right, it would refute decades-old work that showed female mammals finish making all their eggs before or shortly after birth. This might make it possible to grow new eggs inside the ovaries of older women.