Category Archives: Embryology

Heart embryology video MMS This classic 9 minute animation is from the film "Congenital Malformations of the Heart" made in 1951 at the University of Washington by Drs. Robert Rushmer ... By: The92828 … Continue reading →

Egg freezing (or oocyte cryopreservation) allows a woman to have her eggs extracted and stored. They can then be planted into her uterus at a later time, meaning she can become pregnant at a time when her fertility might otherwise have prevented it. But the process comes at a price and $20,000 might not stretch far. Each round of freezing can cost half that amount, plus hundreds of dollars for storage. Doctors often recommend that a woman have around 20 eggs extracted, which can mean two costly sessions. And, of course, theres no guarantee that it will eventually lead to a pregnancy. In the UK, just 20 babies have so far been born from frozen eggs, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Egg freezing has been described as the latest bid in the Silicon Valley perks arms race, which sees employees lavished with health and wellness benefits to keep them fit and encourage loyalty. Apple and Facebook already offer options for fertility treatment and adoption. While Facebook hands new parents $4,000 (2,500) baby cash. Fertility treatments in particular are seen as helping to level the playing field for female employees something that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has … Continue reading →

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Embryology - with preacher Abdul Rahim Green In this episode Shaikh Abdur Raheem Green talks about the authenticated miracles of the Prophet Muhammad may Allah's peace blessings be upon him, things th... By: Shami Al-Ghanem … Continue reading →

MPs are to vote on whether UK should become first country to legalise controversial three parent babies Advocates have compared the IVF technique to changing a battery IVF technique involves taking nucleus out of the egg of a mother with faulty mitochondria transferring it into a healthy egg donated by another woman By Jonathan Petre and Stephen Adams for The Mail on Sunday Published: 18:21 EST, 4 October 2014 | Updated: 07:16 EST, 5 October 2014 99 shares 81 View comments Legislation to allow the birth of babies with genes from three biological parents should be put on hold because it is far riskier than previously thought, scientists warn. MPs are due to vote on whether the UK should become the first country to legalise controversial three parent babies after Government watchdog the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) gave it the go-ahead. Advocates have compared the IVF technique, which involves inserting a small set of genes from a second mother, to changing a battery, saying it had no real impact on the babys core DNA. Advocates claim the IVF technique, which involves inserting a small set of genes from a second mother, to changing a battery, saying it had … Continue reading →

In a letter seen by the Sunday Times to the Commons science and technology committee, which is holding a one-day inquiry into three parent embryos on October 22, a group of scientists said: "The safety of mitochondrial replacement therapy is not yet established sufficiently well to proceed to clinical trials." However, an editorial in New Scientist said mitochondria "play a key role in some of the most important features of human life. This raises the ethically troubling prospect ... that children conceived in this way will inherit vital traits from three parents." Stuart Newman, a cell biologist and professor at New York Medical College, will submit his objections this week and said the importance of the outer part of the egg, donated by the second woman, was being played down. "The mitochondria are ... participants in the development of the organism. This clearly makes any person [brought into being from the procedure] a product of wholesale genetic engineering," he said. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which backs mitochondrial replacement, said it could "see no reason for changing its in-depth and considered views on this matter". Here is the original post: Three-parent babies are 'genetic engineering' and be banned … Continue reading →

MPs are to vote on whether UK should become first country to legalise controversial three parent babies Advocates have compared the IVF technique to changing a battery IVF technique involves taking nucleus out of the egg of a mother with faulty mitochondria transferring it into a healthy egg donated by another woman By Jonathan Petre and Stephen Adams for The Mail on Sunday Published: 18:21 EST, 4 October 2014 | Updated: 19:22 EST, 4 October 2014 21 shares 28 View comments Legislation to allow the birth of babies with genes from three biological parents should be put on hold because it is far riskier than previously thought, scientists warn. MPs are due to vote on whether the UK should become the first country to legalise controversial three parent babies after Government watchdog the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) gave it the go-ahead. Advocates have compared the IVF technique, which involves inserting a small set of genes from a second mother, to changing a battery, saying it had no real impact on the babys core DNA. Advocates claim the IVF technique, which involves inserting a small set of genes from a second mother, to changing a battery, saying it had … Continue reading →

Actually, in Mauritius law and legislations pertaining to surrogate mothers are virtually inexistent. And whether Parliament fails to legislate or reformers would still be waiting until they come across to borrow UK legislations with a view to domesticate them, as usual. There would probably be more and more tourists who would use Mauritian surrogate mothers to have a child and there is a dire need to legislate. The practice whereby one woman carries a child for another with the intention that the child should be handed over after birth (Warnock Committee 1984) is still unknown in our domestic law. According to the Bible, Sarai brought Hagar, a slave-girl, to Abraham who bore a child with her (Genesis chapter 16). Actually, there are two important legislations in the UK: The Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 and the more recent one, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. According to the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 (S.1(3)) an arrangement is a surrogacy arrangement if, were a woman to whom the arrangement relates to carry a child in pursuance of it, she would be a surrogate matter. Despite surrogacy is legal (application is made within 6 months of the childs birth and must have attained … Continue reading →

Over the past 10 years, researchers have restored the fertility of female cancer patients who would otherwise have been left infertile after treatment, having been offered oocyte cryopreservation. The technique enables women to freeze their eggs and use them at a later time to conceive a child. Several babies have been born to cancer patients using this technique, which is no longer classed as experimental. However, the growing trend in developed countries to delay having children until later in life has resulted in egg freezing being increasingly used by healthy women as insurance against age-related infertility. "So far nearly 2000 babies have been born from eggs frozen, without an increase in the incidence of any birth defects," says author Professor Dominic Stoop, Director of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine at UZ Brussels in Belgium. Another fertility restoring approach for young women with cancer is the freezing and transplantation of ovarian tissue. In 2004, a Belgian woman became the first to give birth to a healthy baby, 7 years after banking her frozen ovarian tissue before starting chemotherapy. This technique has gone on to result in the birth of 37 additional healthy babies to cancer patients. "The main advantage of ovarian … Continue reading →

A Birmingham couple have been declared a surrogate babys legal parents after the countrys top judge effectively rewrote the law to help them. President of the High Court Family Division, Sir James Munby, allowed the boy, now almost three, to be legally recognised as their son. The boy referred to only as X was born in India in December 2011 to a surrogate. But the city couple for whom he was intended had no idea they had no parental rights under English law when they returned to Britain with him. The child was made a ward of court and the surrogate and her husband remained his legally-recognised parents. But the Birmingham couples anguish was ended today. Sir James waived the six-month time restriction within which parental order bids must be made under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. In a ruling of considerable public importance, he said the boys best interests demanded he formed part of a lawful family. He told the court: Can Parliament really have intended the gate should be barred forever if the application for a parental order is lodged even one day late? That is very antithesis of sensible; it is almost nonsensical." View post: … Continue reading →