Fertilisation

In a world that glorifies designer brands, where does it end? Society places expensive designer handbags, clothing, and accessories on a pedestal. The names of famous designers lurk in each shopping plaza. In 1977, perhaps two of the most inventive designers, Edwards and Steptoe started a revolution. Edwards and Steptoe successfully fertilized the first egg via in vitro. Louise Brown became known as the world’s first “designer baby”, born in 1978 to her mother Lesley. This revolutionary…

Based on research 95% and 99% of individuals diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome are infertile because they do not produce enough sperm to fertilize an egg naturally Paduch, D.A., Fine, R.G., Bolyakov, A., & Kiper, J. (2008) For infertility, Intracytoplasmic sperm injections have been a successful method for individuals diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome that are trying to conceive a child. For this procedure, a surgeon removes sperm from the testes injected into a needle and places one sperm…

1e) The APGAR scale is a simple test used to determine how the baby is doing at birth and to determine if it can continue on in the world without any additional medical interventions. The test is completed at 1 minute and again at 5 minutes. The test checks for: Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, and Respiration. Each area of the test has a scale of 0-2. What, if any, interventions need to be considered is based off the test scores with a score of 7-10 being a normal healthy baby. A…

Katherine Santana Mrs. Tapia English 3 Honors 11 November, 2015 In Vitro Fertilization Patrick Steptoe, a pioneer of fertility treatment, once said, “I'm not a wizard or a Frankenstein tampering with Nature. We are not creating life. We have merely done what many people try to do in all kinds of medicine—to help nature. We found nature could not put an egg and sperm together, so we did it. We do not see anything immoral in doing that in the interests of the mother. I cannot see anything immoral…

Ethics of Designer Babies Designer Babies refer to children whose genes have been genetically modified for the child to come out with more desireable qualities. This can decrease the chance for the child to develop Down Syndrome, Alzheimer's, and other diseases. Designer Babies allow the parent to give the child a healthy life which ultimately benefits the child. These babies are created by first fertilizing the mother’s egg in a lab. The fertilization creates many embryos. One cell is removed…

Reproductive system helps our body to function properly such as producing an eggs,sperms and ovas.It mainly helps us produces the female egg cells necessary for reproduction, called the ova or oocytes. The reproductive system is very important part of the body system because it helps the population to reproduce, it is a very crucial factor of living.The reproductive system helps our body to produce new cells. One of the most widespread diseases of the reproductive system is known as prostate…

What is an embryo? As far as human being goes it is a fertilized egg, an organism that cannot survive on its own. The embryo becomes a fetus only after the eighth week of pregnancy. There are animal and plant embryos too. Why is it sometimes necessary to freeze human embryos? In many cases where couples are unable to conceive after going through extensive fertility treatments resort to In vitro fertilization or the implanting of the embryo to the receiver who is the mother or a surrogate mother.…

An Unethical Spin on New Life Imagine a world where little feet are running around that were genetically created or hearing a cry from a child who once was a chosen embryo knowing there was another embryo that was just tossed away. That is where our world might be in just a few short years if “designer babies” does not get stopped. There are researchers who are trying to get it legalized and people who have already had designer babies themselves. Designer babies should be illegal in the future…

Every day we turn on the news we see more and more stories of pain and hurt. Breast cancer awareness and walks for leukemia flood media. We’re encouraged to help, to donate for research, to do our part in general, but what if we had a way to diminish the number of people with these ailments? Should we use it? There is a method called preimplantation genetic diagnosis. PDG involves removing a cell from an embryo created through In Vitro fertilization, or IVF, to test for specific genetic…

A couple of weeks ago, Professor Baasten asked the class, “Do you want to have a child?” and followed up with, “Why?” The lecture went on, explaining the different reasons why people want to have children despite it being an irrational act, and he even allowed us to explain our own take as to why we wanted to have children. However, we then talked about when people are physically unable to have children – infertility. Many talk about how wonderful children are, yet some are not able to…