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These record-breaking twins were born from 30 year-old frozen embryos. Their mom is only 3 years older than that.
Record-breaking twins Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway are — technically — five years younger…
Jane Ridley  Â
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A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants
Jacob Hanna, who led a successful mouse "embryo" experiment, wants to recreate it with human cells …
Hannah Getahun  Â
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A Tennessee baby born from a nearly 28-year-old frozen embryo broke a world record previously set by her own sister
Tina Gibson's daughter Molly came from an embryo that was frozen when Tina herself was just a year …
Debanjali Bose  Â
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A couple is suing their fertility clinic for destroying all 7 of their embryos after a storage error
A Washington couple traveled to Colorado for IVF, which resulted in 7 viable embryos. But a lab mis…
Anna Medaris  Â
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A couple did IVF to avoid passing a cancer gene to their child. They say the clinic transferred the wrong embryo, and now the baby may eventually need stomach-removal surgery and may develop cancer.
A lawsuit says that an embryo with a cancer gene was mistakenly transferred during IVF, and the bab…
Jane Ridley  Â
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Scientists created a hybrid human-monkey embryo in a lab, sparking concerns others could take the experiment too far
The embryos were made by injecting human stem cells into macaque embryos as part of research into e…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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A couple's newborn son came from an adopted embryo frozen 20 years ago
Kris and Emily Burns experienced infertility before turning to embryo adoption, a process in which …
Kelly Burch  Â
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I'm a Black mom raising white kids through adoption and embryo donation. Here's how I want them to use their privilege.
The author talks about infertility treatments and adopting a 5-day-old baby shortly after she and h…
Kelly Burch  Â
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A woman who had IVF before her cancer treatment donated her frozen embryos to a fellow survivor, giving her the chance to be a mom
After two survivors of cervical cancer bonded online, the woman who'd had IVF donated her leftover …
Jane Ridley  Â
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Five patients who lost embryos and eggs after a fertility clinic tank failed were awarded $15 million in a landmark case
"It's really painful to be at a baby shower celebrating someone else's family ... knowing inside yo…
Sarah Al-Arshani  Â
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China is launching a probe into Chinese researcher’s claim of creating the world’s first ‘genetically edited’ babies
Jiankui has alleged that the girls had their embryos modified in order to give them an advantage…
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A woman who couldn't get pregnant using her own frozen embryos shared them with friends, ultimately creating 3 families
After Wendy gave her frozen embryos to her friend Abbey, and pursued adoption. Abbey had a daughter…
Anna Medaris Miller  Â
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Scientists have taken a step toward creating 'sheeple' by introducing human cells into sheep embryos
If fully developed, this "sheeple" technique would use human cells from the person in need of a tra…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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VCs are pouring millions into companies that want to help you get pregnant. Meet the startup that just raised $25 million to create a better storage system for eggs, sperm, and embryos.
As part of TMRW's service, each fertility sample gets its own unique identifier that it carries wit…
Lydia Ramsey  Â
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Scientists edited the DNA of human embryos that could become people for the first time - here are the implications for 'designer babies'
The new study is a significant advancement from the first experiments on human embryos using CRISPR…
Erin Brodwin  Â
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This is the game-changing technology that was used to genetically modify a human embryo
Experts even think these types of changes could eventually help treat complex conditions with genet…
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In a world first, a scientist has begun editing the genes of healthy human embryos
Since Lanner does not plan to implant the embryo into a person, none of that is an issue here. Stil…
Kevin Loria  Â
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Congress just put a massive roadblock in the way of genetically editing human embryos
The funding ban comes on the heels of an international summit on human gene editing in Washington, …
Tanya Lewis  Â
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2 leading biologists say we should allow gene editing on human embryos
In Church's op-ed, he points out CRISPR's enormous potential to treat devastating genetic diseases …
Tanya Lewis  Â
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Chinese scientists just admitted to tweaking the genes of human embryos for the first time in history
A recent biotech discovery - one that has been called the biggest biotech discovery of the century …