Alas, the Brits have done it again! They gave the world the first IVF baby (the called test-tube baby) more than 30 years ago. Last year, they presented the first “breast-cancer-free” baby. And now, here’s their latest coup: the first egg-screening baby.
Welcome Oliver, the first baby ever produced using Array Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (Array [...]
Tags: Array CGH, egg screen, embryo, ethics, human egg, IVF, Oliver
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It’s something right out of Grey’s Anatomy. Kaylee is two months old and was on life support. After much heartrending consideration, her parents decided to take her off life support and committed to donate her organs to other needy babies.
On the other side of the coin is one-month-old Lillian, waiting for a matching heart for [...]
Tags: death, ethics, Kaylee and Lillian, organ donation, transplantation
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It’s perhaps one of the most annoying adolescent phrases of the last few years. A boy gets caught cheating on a test–”It’s all good, Miss,” he’ll say to his teacher when she’s upset. A girl busted for shoplifting tells her friends, “It’s all good,” when they ask about what happened.
But the truth is that it’s [...]
Tags: cheat, ethics, high school, Josephson, lie, morals, private school, public school, religious school, steal, survey, teenagers
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