This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born
Walk me through your own decision to do this—to use Orchid’s technology on yourself. I mean, I started the company because I wanted to test my own embryos. Because of …
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A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to use a back-up form of birth …
Can Humans Get Pregnant In Space? Scientists One Step Closer To Finding Out
Topline As people venture further into space at the dawn of a new era of human exploration, scientists have just taken another step towards understanding if and how humans might …
How to Spot Abortion-Related Misinformation
In the case of the Polish research into mifepristone and misoprostol detection, it’s hard to see how people who need abortions would benefit from such a test. Even a person …
Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral
Recently, a close friend told me how much he wanted to be a parent one day. I asked if he’d consider adopting. Suddenly, he became hesitant—pausing before admitting that he’d …
Extreme Heat Threatens the Health of Unborn Babies | WIRED
And hot weather may affect a baby’s development in other ways: A 2021 analysis found a higher incidence of anomalies, such as cardiac defects, spina bifida, or cleft lip, at …
‘Embryo Models’ Challenge the Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an ‘Embryo’
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Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was published shortly before the paper from …
An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo
The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to better understand the role ancient retroviruses play in early embryonic …
Let People Collect Sperm From the Dead
Critics argue that even if someone wanted to have biological children—for instance, if they were actively trying to have children before they died—it can’t be assumed that they would have …