Science startup Heliospect Genomics is marketing a contentious service that allows wealthy couples to screen their IVF embryos for traits like intelligence, raising ethical concerns among experts. The service costs $50,000 to screen 100 embryos.
Over half of GOP voters and those who lean Republican say, “Human life begins at conception, so an embryo is a person with rights.”
President Joe Biden claimed during his 2024 State of the Union address that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision enabled the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent IVF decision.
The Republican-controlled Alabama House and Senate passed companion bills on Thursday that would shield in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics in the wake of the state Supreme Court decision ruling that frozen embryos are considered unborn children.
A Senate Republican blocked the quick passage of a Democrat-led bill on Wednesday that would have installed federal protections, not just for in vitro fertilization (IVF) but for all “assisted reproductive technology” as defined by the federal government.
Sen. Duckworth’s bill would install federal protections, not just for IVF, but for all “assisted reproductive technology.”
Both Republicans and Democrats in Alabama are working to carve out exceptions for in vitro fertilization (IVF) after the state’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos are considered unborn children under state law.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Friday that frozen embryos are considered unborn children under state law, and that anyone who destroys them may be held liable.
Scientists in Israel have grown a model of an early human embryo without using a human egg, sperm, or womb.
Scientists are working to make human reproduction possible in space — an effort they view as an obvious next step as billionaires push to establish colonies on Mars and Venus.
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge in Britain have used stem cells to create what they call a “synthetic human embryo.” The scientists involved promise they will use the technology for research purposes and not to produce transhuman nightmares beyond our comprehension.
A baby who has the DNA of three different people has been born in the UK, a report on Tuesday has revealed.
A new poll shows growing support for the eugenics-based idea of selecting human embryos during IVF based on “intellectual aptitude.”
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the law is unconstitutional because it violates the state constitution’s privacy protections.
Pope Francis called for prayers Tuesday for a more humane bioethics that recognizes and defends the dignity of human embryos.
A baby girl was born in Israel with the embryo of her twin inside her stomach, in an medical rarity that occurs in once in half a million births.
TEL AVIV – Israeli researchers said they have found a way to transform skin cells into the three major stem cell types that comprise early-stage embryos, with the next step being to create whole embryos without the need for sperm or eggs.
