A woman in the USA who acted as a surrogate for a single man, and gave birth to triplets, has taken her claim for custody of at least one of the children to an appeals court. Melissa Cook agreed to act as a surrogate for the man, known as CM, in 2015 using his sperm
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A rare genetic mutation reduces the risk of having a heart attack by one-third, a study has found. The mutation, which substantially lowers levels of non-HDL cholesterol – a marker for heart-disease risk – is already being investigated as potential drug target for preventing heart disease. ‘[This is] an important and previously unknown mechanism for modulating
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One of the largest-ever genetics studies in the social sciences has found 74 genetic variants that are associated with the amount of time an individual spends in education. However, the researchers estimate that the variants they identified comprise just 0.43 percent of the variation in length of time spent studying across individuals. In other words,
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Daljinder Kaur, a 70-year old Indian woman, has just given birth to her first child who was conceived in-vitro by IVF with egg donation from a fertility clinic. The mother purportedly declared: « When we saw the IVF advert, we thought we should also give it a try as I badly wanted to have a
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The Italian Constitutional Court has reconfirmed the legitimacy of the ban on human embryo research. In last month’s decision, the Court declared that Article 13 of Law 40, a 2004 law governing assisted procreation, was constitutional. This legislation was contested by a couple who produced several embryos in an in-vitro fertilisation clinic. This couple requested that “defective
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If confirmed, this is a world first that offers hope to infertile men to have more children one day thanks to reproductive health. For the first time, complete human sperm would have been obtained by culturing in vitro cells taken in the testes of men unable to produce naturally. In healthy men, these stem cells,
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Travelling from New Zealand to use the services of two Mexican surrogate mothers who received the eggs of an Argentinian donor, a homosexual couple finally find themselves stuck in Mexico with three babies. The situation of David and Nicky Leonard Beard is complicated. As the surrogate mothers were already pregnant, they may not be concerned
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An explanation is found throughout the cold: . Winter is, in Sapiens, the mating season 1Because the figures of the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) show unambiguous: the period when more children are born from July to October, with a peak in September. Especially around 23 September, where births are twice as likely than a normal day, but
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