Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for co-developing in-vitro fertilization, has died this week.
The couple had tried to get pregnant in vain for five years until Dion underwent in-vitro fertilization.
The current in-vitro research will now be extended to humans, the next step before there are clinical applications.
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When the pregnancy is the result of insemination or in-vitro fertilisation without consent.
The more we learn about how meat is produced now, the more in-vitro meat looks like a better alternative.
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Last year researchers in the private sector culled stem cells from donated embryos that had been produced for in-vitro fertilization.
Personhood supporters say the measure would not ban in-vitro fertilisation, but neither would it permit unused embryos to be destroyed.
Another startup, Modern Meadow, is using tissue-engineering technique to produce in-vitro leather and meat without requiring the raising, slaughtering, and transporting animals.
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They can flush cows to fertilize their eggs in-vitro, meaning one cow could theoretically produce more than 10 offspring in a year.
Frist's principles include banning human cloning and allowing taxpayer dollars for research only on embryos created for in-vitro fertilization and not from abortions.
This pointed up the fact that some local health authorities restrict, or do not provide, procedures such as in-vitro fertilisation, cosmetic surgery and renal dialysis.
Kate McMahon, Friends of the Earth Energy and Transport campaigner, believes more attention should be paid to improving livestock conditions rather than developing in-vitro meat.
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Prosecutors said Kim smuggled in-vitro fertilized stem cells into Hwang's lab to make it look as though the scientist was successful in creating stem cells through cloning.
The Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.
This in-vitro storage is expensive, because even when kept in cooler, darker and less nutritious conditions than normal, banana plants still outgrow their test tubes every few months.
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As part of an agreement signed this week with the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, the university will train scientists from developing countries in in-vitro and cryogenic techniques.
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Ultimately the success of in-vitro meat may be less about consumer sensibilities and more about the hard realities of feeding a growing global population in a finite world.
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Once embryos are created by in-vitro fertilisation and still growing in the laboratory, it is possible to pluck a cell or two from them and use molecular probes to pinpoint defective genes.
Cato health policy analyst Michael Cannon noted that special interests successfully lobbied to require several new benefits, including drug-abuse treatment, early intervention for autism, hospice care, hormone replacement therapy, and non-in-vitro fertility services.
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Butler is understandably a little bit whiny and mopey, as Annie works through the adoption bureaucracy while continuing to recover from a serious depression over the years of miscarriages, in-vitro-fertilization attempts and fertility drugs.
One obvious touchstone for how in-vitro-meat will be received by the public is perhaps the way GM crops were -- or were not - accepted around the world, something that Matheny draws encouragement from.
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It's true that in-vitro meat isn't natural.
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Even more radical was the invention, in 1978, of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, the now-common technique in which egg and sperm meet in a laboratory petri dish and create an embryo that is then implanted in the would-be mother's womb.
Unlike soy or other meat-surrogates, in vitro meat could shift the economic playing field entirely from a land use issue to the non-effluent based urban indoors.
In practice, the embryos used in the collection of stem cells were left over from attempts to assist reproduction -- donated by couples who used in vitro fertilization.
The amendment would grant full legal protection to embryos and foetuses and could outlaw some forms of birth control, stem-cell research and possibly in vitro fertilisation.
In Massachusetts, for example, every insurance policy must cover in vitro fertilization, even if you're a 25-year-old male, or a nun.
Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT, is a founder of the budding field of tissue engineering--of restoring, maintaining and improving tissue by growing it, in vitro, on a biodegradable polymer (plastic) scaffold.
The basic techniques of human embryo creation that Dr. Edwards pioneered form the technical foundation of in vitro fertilization, human cloning techniques, genetic screening of human embryos and embryonic-stem-cell research.
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But creating a stem cell requires destroying embryos when they are five-day-old balls of a hundred cells, such as fertilized eggs discarded after an in vitro fertilization.
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