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Due Soon: Three-Parent Babies? 

Scientists create one embryo from eggs of two women

Nov 13, 09 9:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Moving one step closer to creating three-parent babies, scientists successfully fertilized a single egg made from those of two women. Though the Japanese team did not try to implant the embryo, there is hope the technique could one day be used to correct genetic problems or ease infertility: IVF is... More »

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embryo • scientific study • IVF

Professional Group Expels Octomom Doc

Reproductive medicine society says Kamrava was out of line

Oct 19, 09 2:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Kamrava, the fertility doctor who twice implanted six embryos into octomom Nadya Suleman (two embryos reportedly split into twins), has been kicked out of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The society recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35, to reduce the risk of multiple births;... More »

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parenting • reproduction • embryo • fertility treatment • American Society for Reproductive Medicine • Nadya Suleman • implanted embryos • fertility medicine • Michael Kamrava • Octomom • fertility doctor

(AP) - The biological parents of a baby boy born to a woman implanted with the wrong embryo say they will remain "eternally grateful" for her decision to turn the baby over to them. The Toledo woman gave birth to a health baby boy this week after a fertility clinic mistakenly... More »

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(Newser) - A British fertility clinic implanted the wrong embryo into a woman who aborted it as soon as she found out, dashing another couple's hopes of having their second baby, reports the Telegraph. When a lab assistant informed the couple, they "held each other and sobbed," said the... More »

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pregnancy • fertility • parenting • embryo • birth • mistake • fertility treatment • IVF

Obama Stem Cell Order Won't Cover All Embryo Research

Stem cell order will not tell Congress to allow creation of new lines

Mar 9, 09 4:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is set to lift the Bush administration's restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but his announcement today won't cover all such experiments, the New York Times reports. The president's action will allow scientists to do research using existing stem cell lines, and those embryos left over... More »

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cancer • stem cell research • Barack Obama • Congress • embryo • executive order

Critics Blast 'Designer
Baby' Clinic

LA Doc offers defect-screening technique
to pick eye color

Mar 2, 09 1:39 AM CST
(Newser) - The founders of an embryo technology that identifies birth defects are furious that a leading Los Angeles fertility clinic is using their discovery to enable couples to choose baby traits like hair and eye color. The role of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis—which identifies thousands of characteristics in a three-day embryo—... More »

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medical breakthrough • in vitro fertilization • baby • embryo • genetic alteration

'Obsessed' Octuplet Mom Wanted 'One More Girl'

Grandmom: 'Obviously she overdid herself'

Jan 31, 09 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - The California mother of octuplets “is obsessed with children” and wanted “just one more girl” even though she already had six kids, her mother told the Los Angeles Times. The 33-year-old divorcee “is very good with children, but obviously she overdid herself,” said her mother, who... More »

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children • baby • embryo • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

Baby Born in UK Screened
To Be Cancer-Free

Scientists implanted in womb only cells without genes that could lead to disease

Jan 9, 09 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - The UK’s first “cancer-free” baby was born yesterday, but not without a shower of criticism for the parents and doctors, the BBC reports. Doctors screened the embryo for the altered BRCA1 gene, whose carriers have an 80% chance of developing breast cancer. “The parents will have been... More »

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fertility • breast cancer • reproduction • United Kingdom • embryo • genes • wowOwow

 Frozen Embryos
 Make Bigger Babies 

Study finds no negative effects compared with fresh

Jul 9, 08 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to in vitro fertilization, frozen might be better than fresh, a new study shows. Infants born after being implanted in mothers' wombs as frozen embryos were no more likely than those from fresh stock to be born with congenital defects, the BBC reports; but they were also... More »

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pregnancy • in vitro fertilization • embryo • infant • Denmark • human embryos • scientific study

UK Approves Research
on Human-Animal Embryos

Hybrids will be used for stem cell study

May 20, 08 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - British legislators have voted to allow scientists to create hybrid human-animal embryos for stem cell research, the Daily Telegraph reports. The new laws will give British scientists more freedom to pursue hybrid research than those of any other country. The vote passed by a huge margin after supporters of the... More »

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stem cell research • genetics • stem cells • embryo • fetus • genetic research • human embryos

 Human-Animal Embryos Created 

Controversial cow-human creation lived for three days

Apr 2, 08 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a brave new world breakthrough, British scientists for the first time have created animal-human hybrid embryos, the London Times reports. The nuclei of cow eggs were removed and replaced with ones from a human cell, creating "admixed" embryos—or "cybrids" whose genetic material is 99.9% human.... More »

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stem cell research • hybrid animal • stem cells • embryo • scientists • bioethics • human embryos

And Baby Makes ... Too Many?

Docs want to cut number of multiple births from fertility treatment

Feb 19, 08 12:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Fertility doctors are beginning to wonder whether they're too successful. With in vitro fertilization prompting a 70% increase in the rate of multiple births since 1980, some are espousing a switch to single-embryo transfer. The procedure lowers the success rate but also lowers the rate of multiple births, with their... More »

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pregnancy • fertility • twins • in vitro fertilization • baby • embryo • fertility treatment • multiple births

UK Military Wives Freezing Husbands' Sperm

More women planning for kids should husbands die in combat

Feb 17, 08 7:35 PM CST
(Newser) - More UK military wives are freezing their husbands' sperm before the men serve in the Middle East. One London fertility clinic expected interest from soldiers but was surprised by the "wives and girlfriends who want to have children should anything happen," a spokesman said. But servicemen must give... More »

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fertility • sperm • United Kingdom • embryo • soldier • British military • fertility clinic • War Widows Association of Great Britain

Calif. Firm First to Clone Human Embryos

Move could aid development of new stem-cell lines

Jan 17, 08 4:38 PM CST
(Newser) - A California lab has cloned a human embryo, a science first; the researchers stopped short, however, of creating stem cells. Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer, the scientists fused DNA from a man’s skin cells with donated egg cells—and created an embryo with cells specific to... More »

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South Korea • stem cells • embryo • cloning

Stem Cells Made Without Destroying Embryos

Blastomere biopsy may finally overcome ethical obstacles

Jan 10, 08 5:43 PM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have created new embryonic stem cells while keeping the donor embryos intact, Wired reports, a breakthrough that could finally permit long-delayed research into curing cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s. Researchers plucked single cells from 2-day-old human embryos, coaxed them to become ESCs, and developed them into heart tissue,... More »

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cancer • stem cells • embryo • blastomere biopsy • Alzheimer's Disease

Embryonic Stem-Cell Issue Still Dogs GOP

Pols can't nix research and back in-vitro
clinics: Time writer

Dec 2, 07 9:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Last week's breakthrough in stem-cell research—the creation of cells from skin rather than embryos—is a tremendous scientific advance, writes Michael Kinsley in Time magazine. But the new science doesn't let hypocritical GOP politicians dodge the controversy over embryonic stem cells: They will still be risking human lives with... More »

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stem cell research • stem cells • in vitro fertilization • GOP • Parkinson's disease • embryo • morals

Abortion Foes' New Strategy: Personhood
for Embryos

States asked to grant rights to fertilized eggs

Nov 23, 07 12:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Tired of waiting for a more right-leaning court to revisit Roe v. Wade, opponents of abortion in several states are adopting a new strategy: constitutional amendments to grant human status to embryos. The LA Times reports on a grass-roots movement to put referendums on state ballots: It faces considerable obstacles... More »

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abortion • embryo • Colorado

Brits Approve Experiments on Human-Animal Embryos

Hybrids to be created for stem cell research

Sep 4, 07 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Controversial experiments with embryos that are part human, part animal will be approved by a British commission tomorrow, the Guardian reports. Researchers hope to create the hybrid embryos to extract stem cells for use in potential treatments of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and possibly motor neuron problems and spinal cord... More »

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stem cell research • hybrid animal • stem cells • Parkinson's disease • embryo • Alzheimer's Disease

Cancer Patients Gain Fertility Hope

Eggs from girls as young as 5 can be frozen before chemotherapy

Jul 2, 07 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prepubescent girls with cancer do not have to give up the prospect of parenthood because of the effects of chemotherapy. Cancer patients as young as 5 can have their eggs removed and frozen before treatment, preserving their fertility, according to research by Israeli scientists. With childhood cancer survival rates climbing,... More »

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cancer • pregnancy • fertility • chemotherapy • children • parents • eggs • puberty • ovarian tissue • embryo • fertility treatment

Stem Cell Breakthrough Spares Embryos

Technique sidesteps both ethical and technical difficulties

Jun 6, 07 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Normal skin cells can be transformed into the equivalent of stem cells in mice, researchers report, and the new technique may revolutionize research on humans. Because it doesn't involve embryos or eggs, the process skirts the ethical quagmires surrounding human stem cell research; the easy availability of raw material and... More »

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stem cells • mice • research • embryo • skin cells

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