The Independant Ian Johnston Science Correspondent Tuesday 27 September 2016 The world’s first child created using a controversial “three-parent” baby technique has been born in Mexico, it has been announced. Limited details about the birth were revealed ahead of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s scientific congress in Salt Lake City next month, where it will be discus...
Monthly Archives: October, 2016
Selecting Sperm by App Fuels the Twisted Eugenic Fantasy of the ‘Perfect’ Child’
The Telegraph Angela Epstein 27 SEPTEMBER 2016 Some pre-natal science is benign – but the “order a daddy” app is a pure vanity projectCREDIT: DAVID GREGS/ALAMY Over the years my (naturally) red hair has provided target practice for much of the adolescent humour raging in our house. Retaliation is sweet. I simply tell my children that […]
The Human Brains Being Grown OUTSIDE the Body: Lab Making Miniature ‘Organs in a Jar’ is Revealed
dailymail.com By Abigail Beall Oct 6, 2016 In 2013, scientists used stem cells to grow 3D tissue that mimics a brain Now researchers over the world are working on making these mini-brains Skin cells are transformed into stem cells, which are grown into brain cells The brains are being used for researching disorders unique to humans […]