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 o...
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...
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 use...