History of IVF
The history of IVF dates way back to the 1890s where professor Walter Heape reported the first ever embryo translation at the university of Cambridge, London. This was long before anyone thought of applying this to humans. In 1932, Aldous Huxley publishes a book called ‘brave new world’ this is a science fiction novel but Aldous describes IVF very realistically. In the year 1934, two representatives from the laboratory of general physiology, Harvard university, Pincus and EnzMann publish a paper to the national academy of science of the united states of America. In the paper, they raise the possibility the eggs of a mammal could develop in vitro. 14 years later two scientist John Rock and Miriam Menken collected 800 female eggs during operations for different conditions, they then went on to expose 130 of them to male sperm cells, they published the experience in the American journal of obstetrics and gynaecology. It was not until 1959 where proper evidence of IVF was obtained, Chang MC was the first to actually birth an animal (rabbit) through IVF. The freshly released eggs were fertilized. Doing this opened the way for assisting producing offspring. 1961, the first retrieval of ‘oocytes’ using laparoscopy is described by Palmer. In 1965, …show more content…
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), is the most effective method to choose the gender of your child available today, although being the best that means it comes with a big price as well, being almost 100% effective comes as a $20,000 PGD uses the same process as IVF but they inspect the embryo, by doing this there is a 100% chance that if you do fall pregnant it will be with the desired gender you have selected. But when you do pick one gender the other gendered embryos are then needed to be dealt with which is where ethical and moral concerns may come in to
The history of IVF dates way back to the 1890s where professor Walter Heape reported the first ever embryo translation at the university of Cambridge, London. This was long before anyone thought of applying this to humans. In 1932, Aldous Huxley publishes a book called ‘brave new world’ this is a science fiction novel but Aldous describes IVF very realistically. In the year 1934, two representatives from the laboratory of general physiology, Harvard university, Pincus and EnzMann publish a paper to the national academy of science of the united states of America. In the paper, they raise the possibility the eggs of a mammal could develop in vitro. 14 years later two scientist John Rock and Miriam Menken collected 800 female eggs during operations for different conditions, they then went on to expose 130 of them to male sperm cells, they published the experience in the American journal of obstetrics and gynaecology. It was not until 1959 where proper evidence of IVF was obtained, Chang MC was the first to actually birth an animal (rabbit) through IVF. The freshly released eggs were fertilized. Doing this opened the way for assisting producing offspring. 1961, the first retrieval of ‘oocytes’ using laparoscopy is described by Palmer. In 1965, …show more content…
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), is the most effective method to choose the gender of your child available today, although being the best that means it comes with a big price as well, being almost 100% effective comes as a $20,000 PGD uses the same process as IVF but they inspect the embryo, by doing this there is a 100% chance that if you do fall pregnant it will be with the desired gender you have selected. But when you do pick one gender the other gendered embryos are then needed to be dealt with which is where ethical and moral concerns may come in to