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South Korea's Bioethics and Biosafety Act (2005)
By: Anne Safiya Clay
| Published: Mar 15, 2013
The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act, in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South…
LawbioethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Embryonic Stem CellsEmbryonic stem cells--Research--Law and legislation
Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Jun 20, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…
PeopleFertilization in VitroReproductionBiographyFertilization
Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and…
LiteratureSex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningGender
In Vitro Fertilization
By: Tian Zhu
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is an assisted reproductive technology (ART) initially introduced by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in the 1970s to…
TechnologyFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilityFertilization
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first…
PeopleFertilizationBiographyMice
Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of Fertilization of Human Oocytes Matured in vitro, 1965 to 1969
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 10, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards, a British developmental biologist at University of Cambridge, began exploring human in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a way to…
Fertilization in VitroExperimentsReproductionFertilizationOocytes
Jeter v. Mayo Clinic Arizona [Brief] (2005)
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: May 09, 2008
In Arizona, statutes that protect persons, such as the wrongful death statute, will not be interpreted by the courts to grant personhood status to…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethics
Robert Geoffrey Edwards and Patrick Christopher Steptoe's Clinical Research in Human in vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer, 1969-1980
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: May 12, 2011
The biomedical accomplishment of human in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) took years to become the successful technique that…
ReproductionExperimentsFertilization