The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett has implications for how assisted reproductive technologies, which can prevent the transmission of disease from parents to child, are regulated.
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By unlocking the full potential of rhino ovaries, we hope to produce enough eggs to revive the northern white rhino in the wild.
As more choices become theoretically available to prospective parents, it's important to understand their rights.
Most people don't intend to be hurtful or insensitive in their conversations with people experiencing infertility — they often just don't know what to say.
Women aged over 35 are sometimes offered genetic testing of their IVF embryos to rule out abnormalities. But it's expensive and doesn't increase their chance of a baby. In fact, it could reduce it.
Yes, there are pros and cons of this new reproductive technology. But there are many other issues about maternal and child health we need to tackle first.
New research suggests that while babies conceived via IVF experience changes to their genes, these differences disappear by adulthood.
Before the advent of genetic testing, definitions of paternity were primarily social and legal. Science has destabilized these older definitions, but it has not replaced them.
We don't know anything about the health of the baby girls who are reported to have been born. But it's clear scientists around the world are shocked.
For women and men not ready to have children, there are new ways to preserve fertility. And experimental techniques offer hope for sick children whose treatments jeopardize future childbearing.
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Professor and Group Leader, Reproductive Epidemiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
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Karin Hammarberg is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Lorenzo and Pamela Galli Chair in Developmental Medicine, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Geneticist and Group Leader, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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Research Fellow, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor in Ovarian Physiology, Lead for Ovarian Cryopreservation and Fertility Preservation Research, Lead of Rhino Fertility Project, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Bioethics and Health Humanities, Deakin University
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Professor of History, Barnard College
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Professor and Group Leader, Cancer and Disease Epigenetics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Team Leader/Senior Research Officer, Cell Biology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Doctoral Fellow with the UKZN African Health Research Flagship, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant professor, Psychology, University of Regina
