A novel isolator-based system promotes viability of human embryos during laboratory processing [PDF]
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) and related technologies are arguably the most challenging of all cell culture applications. The starting material is a single cell from which one aims to produce an embryo capable of establishing a pregnancy eventually ...
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Prevalência do uso de diagnóstico genético pré-Implantação na Unidade Clínica de Paramiloidose do Centro Hospitalar do Porto [PDF]
Introduction: The Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy, with the world’s largest focus in Portugal, is recognized by the National Board of Assisted Reproductive Technologies as a serious disease eligible for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis.
Alves, E. +3 more
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A Right to Choose?: Sex Selection in the International Context [PDF]
While there is some debate among doctors, ethicists, and the general public about the level of medical necessity that should justify a sex-selection procedure, most accept that sex selection for medical reasons is beyond ethical reproach, and in some ...
Bumgarner, Ashley
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Ethics of modifying the mitochondrial genome [PDF]
Recent preclinical studies have shown the feasibility of specific variants of nuclear transfer to prevent mitochondrial DNA disorders. Nuclear transfer could be a valuable reproductive option for carriers of mitochondrial mutations.
Bredenoord, A L +3 more
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Endometrial thickness and early pregnancy complications after frozen-thawed embryo transfers
BackgroundThe relationship between endometrial thickness and pregnancy safety after in vitro fertilization treatment is an important topic that should provoke attention.
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Errors in chromosome segregation during oogenesis and early embryogenesis [PDF]
Errors in chromosome segregation occurring during human oogenesis and early embryogenesis are very common. Meiotic chromosome development during oogenesis is subdivided into three distinct phases.
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Genetic Selective Abortion: Still a Matter of Choice [PDF]
Jeremy Williams has argued that if we are committed to a liberal pro-choice stance with regard to selective abortion for disability, we will be unable to justify the prohibition of sex selective abortion. Here, I apply his reasoning to selective abortion
Blackshaw, Bruce P.
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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis raises ethical and moral concerns about using one person as a means to save another, especially as highlighted in recent cases where parents have more children in the hopes of saving a sick child. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Transmission of mitochondrial DNA following assisted reproduction and nuclear transfer [PDF]
Review of the articleMitochondria are the organelles responsible for producing the majority of a cell's ATP and also play an essential role in gamete maturation and embryo development.
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Fabricated humans? Human genetics, ethics and the Christian wisdom tradition [PDF]
This is a PDF version of an article published in Dialog© 2005. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.This article discusses moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic screening and testing and argues that principles of ...
Deane-Drummond, Celia
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