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Fast Company
September 2010
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Human Egg Sales Raise Bioethical Issues Modern fertility technology has made parenthood a possibility for thousands more people, but it has also created a lucrative - and ethically questionable - global trade in human genetic material.   |
Reason
October 2006
Kerry Howley |
Ova for Sale The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs, written by Donor #15. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2010
Amber Angelle |
How to Create a Designer Baby Women undergoing in vitro fertilization could one day choose to have a baby boy with perfect vision, an aptitude for sports and a virtual lock on avoiding colon cancer. |
Wired
January 2001
Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
Salon.com
January 31, 2001
Theresa Pinto Sherer |
Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way... |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Leah Kohlenberg |
Designer babies? Pediatrician and ethicist Joel Frader says that just because a family has had a child to provide a bone-marrow transplant for an ailing daughter, it doesn't mean custom-ordered kids are right around the corner... |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
Catherine Arnst |
And Baby Makes...A Market "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" is a valuable, thought-provoking look at the baby-making business. |
Salon.com
May 3, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
Reason
February 2009
Cheryl Miller |
Who's Your Daddy? Children of sperm donors are seeking more information about their once-anonymous fathers, sometimes at the risk of the fertility industry itself. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2000
Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
ifeminists
September 22, 2004 |
Fertility Tourism Many aspiring parents dislike the laws that control fertility in the UK and are attracted by the more flexible foreign policies. |
Wired
May 2002
Brian Alexander |
The Remastered Race Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving new life to the eugenics debate. The question is not whether we want to engineer embryos but how far it should go... |
Wired
January 2004
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Salon.com
May 25, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Salon.com
August 25, 2000
Jay Dixit |
Designer eggs This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2007
Sarah Houlton |
Global Report: Ready ... Set ... The European Parliament has launched a formal process for assessing therapies developed through stem-cell research. Ethical issues that have wrangled US regulators, though, still need attention. |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2007
Mark Teich |
A Man's Shelf Life As men age, their fertility decreases and the health risks to their unborn offspring skyrocket. But men who attend to their health can slow down the reproductive clock. |
ifeminists
May 25, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Case Could Freeze Sperm Donation A state supreme court is considering a legal appeal that could set wide-reaching precedent for both child support policy and fertility clinics in the U.S. The tangled personal circumstances of this situation constitute a legal nightmare and the sort of 'hard' case that makes bad law. |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001 |
To clone or not to clone? As two scientists threaten to begin human cloning "within weeks," scientists and ethicists say the two are acting irresponsibly... |
ifeminists
November 10, 2004
Bettina Arndt |
Spermwars There are children being created in Australia today via the internet, chosen by mothers who scan sperm donors' ads for the biological father for their child. |
Salon.com
May 21, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare... |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 17, 2003
Julia Hanna |
The Business of Babies The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge -- and little discussed. Harvard professor Debora L. Spar looks at the market realities. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2000
Ralph Brave |
Building better humans The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 13, 2006
Manda Salls |
The Hidden Market for Babies Harvard professor Debora L. Spar discusses the research behind her book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. |
AskMen.com
Wendy Walsh |
Male Fertility It's true: In the last 50 years, human male fertility has been declining. |
Nurse Practitioner
December 2010
Susanne Quallich |
Male infertility: A primer for NPs Practitioners should feel comfortable addressing basic reproductive health questions, and referring men to a male infertility specialist or an andrologist for additional evaluation if the male has additional concerns. |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Britain Unleashes the Wolfman The chimerical future is here. Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryo Authority announced that it will permit scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos. |
Salon.com
March 1, 2002
Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
A cruel choice A woman decides to have a child knowing that she's about to descend into dementia. That's morally indefensible... |
Fast Company
September 2010 |
The Global Bazaar for Human Reproductive Material IVF has given hope to millions of aspiring parents, but the wild, international inconsistency of rules on egg donation has created big disparities - and for entrepreneurs, huge opportunities. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2001
Lisa Moricoli Latham |
What are we fighting for? I just lost a pregnancy, but gained new insight into the stem cell debate... |
Salon.com
November 17, 1999
Kristi Coale |
Playing God Scary eugenics documents from the turn of the century shine a disturbing light on ethical dilemmas raised by genetic testing. |
Chemistry World
January 20, 2009
Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists. |
Salon.com
July 24, 2000
Carol Mithers |
Hustling hormones I scored black market drugs to get my ovaries high -- and mighty. |
Wired
October 2003
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
The Test-Tube Family Reunion Louise Brown turns 25. Happy Birthday, IVF. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2003
Peter N. Kolettis |
Evaluation of the Subfertile Man Infertility affects 15 percent of couples, and 50 percent of male infertility is potentially correctable. Evaluation of the subfertile man requires a complete medical history, physical examination, and laboratory studies. |
Reason
October 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Wired
September 2001 |
Automated In Vitro Fertilization System Vitae aims to put the entire process on a single slide within two years... |
Reason
July 2008
Kerry Howley |
Baby Bust! After 200 years of exponential population growth, and just four decades after overpopulation doomsaying began filling the bestseller lists, the First World is suddenly gripped with underpopulation hysteria. |
| Reason |
Shopping for fertility markets Reproduction rules vary by country. For example, in France, gamete donation, sperm insemination, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are available only to married couples or common-law spouses. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed Genetic advances could spawn incredible improvements in health care. Given public demand, they also pose what may be unmanageable issues of resource use... |
Salon.com
December 29, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Will Thompson, Bush clash over human embryo research? The HHS nominee supports it, but right-to-lifers want it stopped.... |
Reactive Reports
Issue 64
David Bradley |
Stem to Sperm New research shows that stem cells from human bone marrow can be converted into early-stage sperm. The discovery could lead to novel fertility treatments in the long-term. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Ruth Marvin Webster |
Never too old My 70-year-old dad and his model wife are looking for a "little miracle"... |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2007
John Bonner |
Female Reproductive System Can 'Sense' Sperm Female pigs detect when a boar's sperm arrives in their oviducts and trigger the release of proteins that help in fertilization. Corresponding proteins in humans could potentially be used to increase success in vitro fertilization. |
ifeminists
December 30, 2003
Jennifer Roback Morse |
Fruitful Love Marriage and Infertility I have argued that procreation and spousal unity are the natural, organic purposes of human sexuality. If this is so, what about the infertile couple? |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Male Fertility Myths The idea that infertility is entirely a women's issue is just one of a few recycled myths regarding the ability to conceive. Here are a few more. |
Bio-IT World
October 14, 2004 |
Stem Cells and the Ballot Box Science policy is seldom a pivotal factor in U.S. presidential elections, but this year might be an exception. |
Bio-IT World
August 2005
Maureen McDonough |
U.K. Framework Offers Stem Cells a Future The United Kingdom has managed to cut through the noise surrounding stem cell research, creating a regulatory framework that fosters an environment of international collaboration and excellent R&D programs. And they try to do it all in an ethical way. |
Salon.com
March 17, 2000
Laurie Essig |
I miss lesbian reproductive sex Little purple sticks, big metal tanks and doing it whether we wanted to or not -- now that's hot... |
