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04/18/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

New laws would allow children to be artificially created from the genes of dead humans… “posthumous conception” creates living from the dead

One of the hottest topics being debated in bioethics right now is the concept of conceiving a child using the sperm or egg of a dead person. For example, a man’s frozen sperm could be used after his death for in vitro fertilization or artificial insemination, or a woman’s frozen eggs could be used to […]

02/12/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Medical monstrosity: Doctors creating “three-parent” babies to be carried to term by female volunteers

With all the Frankenstein-like science that we’ve been seeing in recent years, it was only a matter of time before scientists found a way to create babies using three parents. Now, doctors in the UK have been given the green light to create three-parent babies. The country’s fertility regulator is allowing doctors at Newcastle Fertility […]

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