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The Shettles Method of Sex Selection
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Apr 03, 2019
In the 1960s in the United States Landrum B. Shettles developed the Shettles method, which is a procedure for couples to use prior to and during an…
TechnologySex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningSex Chromosomes
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
By: Nathalie Antonios
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) involves testing for specific genetic conditions prior to the implantation of an embryo in the uterine wall.…
TechnologyPreimplantation DiagnosisReproductionFertilizationgenetic testing
Plan B: Emergency Contraceptive Pill
By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward
| Published: Sep 04, 2008
Plan B is a progestin-only emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) that can be taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex in order to prevent an…
TechnologyContraceptionReproductionReproductive Rights
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
Golden Rice
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Golden Rice was engineered from normal rice by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in the 1990s to help improve human health. Golden Rice has an engineered…
TechnologyRiceBiotechnologyGenesMolecular Biology
MicroSort
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Jul 09, 2019
"MicroSort, developed in 1990 by the Genetics and IVF Institute, is a form of pre-conception sex selection technology for humans. Laboratories…
Technologyin vitroFertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in VitroSperm donors
Shoukhrat Mitalipov and Masahito Tachibana's Mitochondrial Gene Replacement Therapy Technique
By: Giselle Lee
| Published: Sep 06, 2017
In 2009, Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Masahito Tachibana, and their team of researchers developed the technology of mitochondrial gene replacement therapy to…
TechnologymonkeysGurdon, J. B. (John Bertrand)Briggs, Robert, -1983King, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1921-2000