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    The great hindrance to families across the world — infertility. Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive a child after one year of attempting to reproduce (Farlax). There are two branches of infertility: primary and secondary. Primary infertility occurs when a couple has yet to experience pregnancy. Secondary infertility occurs when a couple conceived a child, but were unable to conceive another child after one year of attempting to reproduce. Infertility has many causes: “ovulation…

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    engineered in vitro for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection.” (Arizona Board of Regents 2015) Parents would be able to select whether or not their child inherits a certain genetic disease, sex, super intelligence and some doctors believe that in 10 years time you will be able to choose the eye colour of your baby and it will have an 80% success rate. How does designer babies work? First scientists create an embryo using In-vitro…

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    effects are unknown, and many also fear it will have negative societal effects. Those in favor of editing the human germline embrace the opportunity to enhance humanity. Baird (2007) says that controversy has been present since the invention of in vitro fertilization in 1978. Baird (2007) examines reasoning behind both sides regarding the ethics of reproductive technology, a debate which progressed with the invention of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis…

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    advances are to benefit the major of society in counting their generation to come. This process isn’t just about deciding what gender or eye color you want your child to have. Reproductive technology has become favor popular since the world’s first in vitro fertilization baby, Louise Brown, in the United Kingdom. The history of IVF dates back as early as the 190’s when Walter Heape, a professor at the University of Cambridge reported the first known case of embryo transplantation in rabbits.…

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    of your child. Doing so has many benefits, but also many MANY cons. Designer babies are not something literally constructed and would ruin the society of today. Designer babies or PGD is where eggs are taken and fertilized through vitro fertilization. Vitro fertilization is where the egg is taken and fertilized in a lab. Once the eggs are fertilized, the cells are removed from the developed embryo. The genes are tested and the couple can choose to implant a different gene in. For example,…

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    BIOLOGY There are a few ways in which the process of sex selection can be completed. Though the most efficient way to use the Microsort flow cytometry method. A fluorescent dye is used to stain the sperm in a way that allows DNA bearing X and Y-chromosomes to be seen more clearly whilst a laser beam is passed through the stained sperm cell. This strategy has been utilized as a part of numerous configurations for more than 30 years. These strategies deal with the reason that they isolate the X…

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    Pgd Pros And Cons

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    Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis-PGD is the screening of embryos to test if they have single gene diseases/mutations, for example, Huntington 's Disease and Cystic Fibrosis (17/08/16 Fertility Associates Powerpoint) This means parents who have life threatening diseases or are carries of such things, can ensure they do not pass the same thing to their children. With the development of such technology PGD can stop children being brought into this world that will have serious health…

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    genetic diagnosis, enable doctors and parents to slaughter offspring that are deemed unfit. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a screening test used to determine if genetic or chromosomal disorders are present in embryos produced through in vitro fertilization (IVF). This technology also allow parents to choose their child’s physical characteristics like eye and hair color. If an embryo is found to be unfit by the parents, this developing human is simply discarded. Reproductive…

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    are even born. This process is called preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a screening test used to determine if genetic or chromosomal abnormalities are present in an embryo created through in-vitro fertilization. In-vitro fertilization literally means fertilization “in glass,” but in actuality, simply occurs in laboratory receptacles. This combined process, developed in the early 1990s, originally intended to help families at high risks for sex-linked…

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    Designer Baby Essay

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    Scientific technology today has made many advancements. Humans have more at their fingertips than ever before, including the option to design their own baby. A common technique for doing so is known as in vitro fertilization. This technique involves combining the sperm and eggs into a petri dish and then inserting the fertilized eggs into the female’s uterus. Other methods include injecting specific sperm directly into the fallopian tubes, this sperm can be provided by either the parents…

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