In vitro

Art Therapy as a Healing Tool for Sub-fertile Women, an 11-page summary of multiple studies completed by the Hamilton Health Science Centre for Reproductive Care, is about the effects of art therapy on infertile women. This study used questionnaires and art therapy to help relieve participants’ anxiety and depression. The participants in the experiment were twenty-one women with a mean age of 35.7 and a duration of sub-fertility of 64 months. The women were organized into groups of three…

IVF is a process when a baby is scientifically formed. IVF helps people like heterosexual couples; same sex couples and single women to have their own baby. Many different people have different opinions on IVF were it is a positive or a negative treatment to have. IVF is a legal treatment in Australia and other countries however it is illegal in many other countries as well. IVF is a very risky treatment and there are many other alternate solutions instead of it. IVF is a process when a baby…

Fertility Preservation is a field in Fertility that was created by Dr. Kutluk Oktay. Fertility Preservation is the process of freezing reproductive tissue to be used later in the making of children. Fertility Preservation can be used to help couples that can’t have children, have children. People with cancer or other diseases that would disable themselves to be able to have children, now can because of Fertility Preservation. It can change the course of somebodies life. Dr. Oktay is very happy…

Analysis of Case Study: Fetal Abnormality Introduction While a fetus is developing in the womb, there are different perspectives raised regarding what constitutes a moral being at the time. Some argue that a fetus at the stage cannot be considered a moral being because they are not aware of what is taking place while to others; the fetus is already a being because it has life. Different bioethicist theories have also been developed to understand fetus developments and these theories are used…

Parthenogenesis The concept of “virgin birth”, as the name parthenogenesis directly translates, is not one of recent design. The entirety of the Judeo-Christian world is struck with the emphasis on Jesus Christ’s mother, Mary, and her birth without relation. This, however, was seen to be a (highly debated) miracle, without chance of recurrence, until now. Until the 20th century, it was thought that animals needed sex to reproduce, but in recent years, it has been made clear that even vertebrae…

The name of our skeletal disorder/ disease that we chose is called Polydactyly. Also known as hyperdactyly and polydactylism, Polydactyly is a medial term used to describe the unusual condition of extra fingers and extra toes. Polydactyly is a deformity in which the hand has one or more extra fingers in any of three places of the hand: • On the small finger side—most common (ulnar) • On the thumb side, also called thumb duplication—less common (radial) • In the middle of the hand—least…

Yes, you read that right. Now, you are probably running through in your mind all the possible ways that would be able to happen. Maybe you think that there is some kind of cheap trick employed here whereby it was originally a person born as a female who has retained their female reproductive organs. Well, you would be wrong. Mindblown? Here are three reasons why men will be able to get pregnant very soon. Advanced Surgery Makes It Possible for Men to Be Pregnant Advanced medical procedures…

According to Forensic Science, “In April of 1953 Watson and Crick published a model of the DNA helix in a one page letter to Nature. It began with the now famous understatement: ‘We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest’” (Laboratory. 2011). This is the very foundation that DNA was discovered. According to Forensic Magazine, “DNA profiling was originally developed as a method…

Reproductive technologies are a wonderful way to grant hope to struggling, infertile couples. Artificial insemination or donor insemination is one of the first reproductive treatments many couples will attempt if they are having difficulty conceiving. It is a great option because donor insemination is a painless, straightforward procedure that is inexpensive compared to other possible options. There are not many downsides to donor insemination. However, it does not guarantee a pregnancy, so…

Environmental-Dependent Sex Determination in Reptilians When we think of sex determination in organisms, we most often think of mitosis and the process of randomly receiving X and Y chromosomes from parent cells. This type of sex determination is known as genotypic sex determination (GSD), and it’s the most commonly found method of sex determination. However, this isn’t the only type of sex determination available to organisms. Some reptilians, for example, use environmental-dependent sex…