Test Tube Babies

Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry Dr Venki Ramakrishnan has agreed to reality check all such claims in great detail.

Facing widespread ridicule after two of its invitees made unscientific claims during their lectures; the Indian Science Congress (ISC) has decided to go for a policy change, which will include stipulating a process of selection of speakers and scrutinizing the content of their speech.

Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen has taken a leaf out of the BJP book and suggested the renaming of two things -- the "science" that claims Kauravas were test-tube babies, and Nalanda, the university which no longer conforms to the Buddhist ideals it once stood for.

A voluntary science body Saturday condemned the ''Kauravas were test tube babies'' claim made in the Indian Science Congress held in Punjab's Jalandhar, saying it was "wrong to mix mythology and science".

The Vice Chancellor of Andhra University has said that India possessed the knowledge of stem cell research, test tube fertilisation and even guided missiles thousands of years ago, providing as evidence, tales from the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Pakistan's top Shariat court has validated the option of using 'test tube baby' method for conceiving for the married couples having some medical complications.

Twenty-nine years after she became famous as Mumbai's first test tube baby, Harsha Chawda Shah is now herself a proud mother of a baby boy.

A healthy baby has been born in China's northwest Shaanxi Province from an embryo frozen 12 years ago, the country's longest preserved test tube baby.

The designers, who are gay and were in a long-term relationship with each other a few years ago, said it was the veteran British singer who was being judgemental

A US advisory board on Wednesday debated a controversial new technique that would use DNA from three people to produce embryos free of a particular type of hereditary disease.

More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than at any time since the technology was introduced in the 1980s, according to a report released on Monday.

The first test-tube baby to come from an embryo screened for genetic defects using a new, low-cost technique that could improve in-vitro fertilisation success rates was born last month and is a healthy boy.

Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist who pioneered the development of "test tube babies" conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), died on Wednesday after a long illness, his university said.

In a rare case in modern China, a wealthy couple who had eight children apparently due to fertility treatment may face hefty fines for violating the country's one child policy. The octuplets were delivered by the wife and two surrogate mothers separately, but the births may be ruled as violating the country's family planning policy.

Frozen sperm works just as well as fresh when trying to make test-tube babies for infertile couples, according to recent research, a finding that should take some of the pressure off would-be fathers.

Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry Dr Venki Ramakrishnan has agreed to reality check all such claims in great detail.

Facing widespread ridicule after two of its invitees made unscientific claims during their lectures; the Indian Science Congress (ISC) has decided to go for a policy change, which will include stipulating a process of selection of speakers and scrutinizing the content of their speech.

Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen has taken a leaf out of the BJP book and suggested the renaming of two things -- the "science" that claims Kauravas were test-tube babies, and Nalanda, the university which no longer conforms to the Buddhist ideals it once stood for.

A voluntary science body Saturday condemned the ''Kauravas were test tube babies'' claim made in the Indian Science Congress held in Punjab's Jalandhar, saying it was "wrong to mix mythology and science".

The Vice Chancellor of Andhra University has said that India possessed the knowledge of stem cell research, test tube fertilisation and even guided missiles thousands of years ago, providing as evidence, tales from the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Pakistan's top Shariat court has validated the option of using 'test tube baby' method for conceiving for the married couples having some medical complications.

Twenty-nine years after she became famous as Mumbai's first test tube baby, Harsha Chawda Shah is now herself a proud mother of a baby boy.

A healthy baby has been born in China's northwest Shaanxi Province from an embryo frozen 12 years ago, the country's longest preserved test tube baby.

The designers, who are gay and were in a long-term relationship with each other a few years ago, said it was the veteran British singer who was being judgemental

A US advisory board on Wednesday debated a controversial new technique that would use DNA from three people to produce embryos free of a particular type of hereditary disease.

More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than at any time since the technology was introduced in the 1980s, according to a report released on Monday.

The first test-tube baby to come from an embryo screened for genetic defects using a new, low-cost technique that could improve in-vitro fertilisation success rates was born last month and is a healthy boy.

Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist who pioneered the development of "test tube babies" conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), died on Wednesday after a long illness, his university said.

In a rare case in modern China, a wealthy couple who had eight children apparently due to fertility treatment may face hefty fines for violating the country's one child policy. The octuplets were delivered by the wife and two surrogate mothers separately, but the births may be ruled as violating the country's family planning policy.

Frozen sperm works just as well as fresh when trying to make test-tube babies for infertile couples, according to recent research, a finding that should take some of the pressure off would-be fathers.