UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos. It is the first time a country has considered the DNA-altering technique in embryos and approved it.The research will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London and aims to provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments
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Almost 25 years ago in the beginning of 90th 20 century 15-year old resident of the United States was diagnosed with oncological disease. Before the treatment teenager donate his sperm which was stored in liquid nitrogen 23 years and didn’t lost its properties. Despite that cryopreservation method used in reproductive medicine for the past several
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The question of “whether there is a pregnancy after cancer ‘no longer sounds like “Is there life on Mars”. Over the past couple of years, scientists have moved far in this direction. We have not yet learned how to prevent cancer, but we learn how to negotiate it. For example, chemotherapy use to be a
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22 of January 2014 was published the information about long term investigation of infertility in USA. The report was prepared by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention – one of the US divisions which had a name Infertility Service Use in the United States: Data From the National Survey of Family Growth, 1982–2010. The
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As reported by the agency “Xinhua” on Thursday 29 of October China ends “one – child policy”, allowing families have two children. According to the agency every family in China can have 2 children. Demographical “one – child” policy was accepted in China in 1970s. It touches the most of the Chinese families with the
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Some people have an option to choose donor egg or use their own, some people have to use donors by medical reasons. But the question – how we should feel about donors egg bothers women in both cases, because the child will get genetic set from the donor. This is why million women in the
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As you know, international law is one of the most complicated of legal science. Every country have their own law which may seems to us funny or strange. There are a lot of jokes about American law in different states. But when you face these laws become not so funny. So let’s talk about child’s
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Most of the parents don’t care about sex of their future child. As people says : ” Healthy – and that’s enough”. But the only way to indicate every aspect of genetic health of the embryo (by punctuating one of cells 3 days embryo) is PGD. As well this method give us a chance to
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