• 2016/05/16
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    THE BAN ON HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH IS UPHELD IN ITALY

    THE BAN ON HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH IS UPHELD IN ITALY

    The Italian Constitutional Court has reconfirmed the legitimacy of the ban on human embryo research. In last month’s decision, the Court declared that Article 13 of Law 40, a 2004 law governing assisted procreation, was constitutional. This legislation was contested by a couple who produced several embryos in an in-vitro fertilisation clinic. This couple requested that “defective

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    • 2016/04/28
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    FIRST: SPERM HAVE BEEN PRODUCED IN VITRO

    FIRST: SPERM HAVE BEEN PRODUCED IN VITRO

    If confirmed, this is a world first that offers hope to infertile men to have more children one day thanks to reproductive health. For the first time, complete human sperm would have been obtained by culturing in vitro cells taken in the testes of men unable to produce naturally. In healthy men, these stem cells,

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    • 2016/04/18
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    SURROGACY: TWO HOMOSEXUALS STUCK IN MEXICO WITH THREE BABIES

    SURROGACY: TWO HOMOSEXUALS STUCK IN MEXICO WITH THREE BABIES

    Travelling from New Zealand to use the services of two Mexican surrogate mothers who received the eggs of an Argentinian donor, a homosexual couple finally find themselves stuck in Mexico with three babies. The situation of David and Nicky Leonard Beard is complicated. As the surrogate mothers were already pregnant, they may not be concerned

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    • 2016/04/13
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    Sperm: they prefer the winter!

    Sperm: they prefer the winter!

    An explanation is found throughout the cold: . Winter is, in Sapiens, the mating season 1Because the figures of the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) show unambiguous: the period when more children are born from July to October, with a peak in September. Especially around 23 September, where births are twice as likely than a normal day, but

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    • 2016/04/08
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    Why babies all over the world are now sleeping in boxes

    Why babies all over the world are now sleeping in boxes

    Nearly three years ago, the Magazine reported on the Finnish baby box – a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys the state gives to expectant mothers. The story went viral and was read by 10 million people in 18 months. Now the box idea itself is spreading around the world. It’s a tradition that

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    • 2016/04/06
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    Surrogate medicine: what you should know.

    Surrogate medicine: what you should know.

    If you decide to take to the services of a surrogate mother, it is not superfluous to learn about what is not accepted to be written on sites of reproductive medicine clinics. So, it is about the most important and at the same time rarely voiced features of surrogate medicine in different countries. States with

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    • 2016/04/01
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    United Kingdom: the number of frozen eggs has tripled in five year

    United Kingdom: the number of frozen eggs has tripled in five year

    According to a report by the HFEA, the number of women freezing their eggs has tripled in five years. In 2014, 816 women used this technique in an attempt to preserve their fertility and have a child later in life. The HFEA has listed several reasons behind the freezing of eggs: ·         “The lack of

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    • 2016/03/31
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    Thailand: a surrogate mother refuses to allow the child to leave with a homosexual couple

    Thailand: a surrogate mother refuses to allow the child to leave with a homosexual couple

    The world’s media attention is currently focused on a legal battle underway in Thailand between homosexual partners and a surrogate mother.   On finding out that the intended parents were homosexuals, Mrs. Kusolsang, the surrogate mother, changed her mind and did not sign the relevant passport documentation for the child she had already handed over

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