Fertilisation

Surrogacy is an intricate and sensitive subject, which raises a number of ethical and legal concerns in Queensland. Current state legislation fail to regulate surrogacy and protect key stakeholders: the intending parent, surrogate mother, and unborn child from risky and often unethical overseas, commercial arrangements. At this Youth Issues Conference, the key issues regarding the Queensland legislation will be discussed and recommendations for improvement will be determined in order to remedy…

Jewish Variants There are three major variants within Judaism. These three variants are conservative, progressive and orthodox. Conservative Judaism seeks to preserve Jewish tradition and ritual, but has a more flexible approach to the interpretation of the law than Orthodox Judaism. Progressive Judaism has reformed or abandoned aspects of Orthodox Jewish worship and ritual in an attempt to adapt to modern changes in social, political, and cultural life. Orthodox Judaism is a major branch…

To transfer DNA into a cell, a delicate procedure must take place. Firstly a section of DNA containing instructions for making a helpful protein is packaged inside a virus bacteria or plasma, which then acts as a capsule to carry the new DNA into the cells of a patient suffering a genetic disease. Once the ‘capsule’ enters the cells of the patient, the gene is expressed by the cell’s regular machinery leading to production of the accommodating protein and treatment of the genetic disease…

In order to make food more affordable and feed a growing population, food companies add harmful chemicals and hormones to speed growth and increase production. This is a an epidemic because everybody is exposed to different kinds of chemicals and food chemicals are the most common. Due to increase in cost for maintaining our food healthy, adding chemicals and hormones drops the price, but has negative affects to the human body internally when consumed. Many different chemicals are added into…

Inefficient fertilisation (involving nitrogen) can lead to unwanted N₂O emissions. Simply fertilising crops with the precise amount of nitrogen can reduce such harmful gas emissions. While small changes may not seem like they can solve the problem of global warming, it…

the uterine lining in preparation for a fertilised egg. Progesterone has a negative feedback loop with the hypothalamus that inhibits GnRH, as well as FSH and LH. The decrease in the latter two stops the want for follicle growth. If there is no fertilisation the corpus luteum starts to shrink which lowers the progesterone and estrogen released. This happens after 10 days and menstruation begins. (The Ovarian And Menstrual Cycle…

Literal Shit IVF stands for in-vitro fertilisation and is usually used to treat a variety of infertility problems, but can also screen embryos for genetic disorders (PGD) in normally fertile couples. It was originally developed to treat infertility caused by blocked or damaged fallopian tubes. IVF was the first assisted reproductive technology and therefore has the most experience behind it (over 20 years). PGD stands for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and the testing can increase both the…

Infertility is the inability of reproducing a child after trying to make one for one year. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, USA, “approximately 10% to 15% of couples in the USA are infertile.” Infertility is not only a common issue found among heterosexual couples, but it is a major issue among homosexual couples. Homosexual couples cannot physically reproduce a biological child of their own. In order to reproduce a child, an egg and sperm must meet. Society can only…

Whilst we generally hear of the story of how getting pregnant was hard, but staying pregnant was easy, this story is less frequently told, but occurs with approximately 15% of all pregnancies (Serrano and Lima 2006). “At 29 I discovered that, for me, getting pregnant was easy, but staying pregnant was difficult. It took three miscarriages before I finally fell pregnant and stayed that way, eventually leading to my first successful pregnancy at age 34.” It is stories like these that make us…

the reasons for the stoppage. A similar situation of total disregard to organism creation through laboratorial procedures was observed in Ehrlich’s article talking about the case against de-extinction (a branch similar to cloning and In-vitro fertilisation), wherein he clearly specifies “it’s a fascinating but dumb idea” and talks about if extinct species were to be revived, the endangered ones would definitely be affected. Stewart Brand, the author for de-extinction, might have been right when…