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Chinese Parents Test DNA To Check If Kids Will Become Prodigies
Months after his daughter's birth in 2017, Chris Jung dropped off a test-tube of her saliva to his company's genetic testing lab in Hong Kong. He had grand ambitions for the baby, and was seeking clues to the future in her DNA. She might become a prominent professional, he thought, possibly even a doctor.
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Amartya Sen Slams Intolerance, Says Why Not Rename "Science"
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.
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Science Body Responds To Claim "Kauravas Were Test-Tube Babies"
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".
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Kauravas Of Mahabharata Were Test-Tube Babies: Andhra University Head
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.
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Sita Was Test-Tube Baby, Declares Yogi Adityanath's Deputy
A minister in Uttar Pradesh has shared his radical views on ancient India's gifts to modern science, adding to the stream of such comments derided by many as outrageous. Lord Ram's wife Sita is an example of a test-tube baby, UP's Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma has suggested.
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Mumbai's First Test Tube Baby Becomes Mother
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.
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Baby Born After Surviving As Frozen Embryo For 12 Years In China
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.
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Number of test-tube babies born in US hits record percentage
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.
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Doctors develop $260 test-tube baby system for poor world
Belgian doctors have developed a low-cost version of test-tube baby technology for use in developing countries, where sophisticated Western systems are unaffordable for most couples.
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First test-tube baby born after new, cheaper genome screening
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.
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Frozen sperms for test-tube babies
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.
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Chinese Parents Test DNA To Check If Kids Will Become Prodigies
Months after his daughter's birth in 2017, Chris Jung dropped off a test-tube of her saliva to his company's genetic testing lab in Hong Kong. He had grand ambitions for the baby, and was seeking clues to the future in her DNA. She might become a prominent professional, he thought, possibly even a doctor.
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Amartya Sen Slams Intolerance, Says Why Not Rename "Science"
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.
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Science Body Responds To Claim "Kauravas Were Test-Tube Babies"
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".
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Kauravas Of Mahabharata Were Test-Tube Babies: Andhra University Head
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.
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Sita Was Test-Tube Baby, Declares Yogi Adityanath's Deputy
A minister in Uttar Pradesh has shared his radical views on ancient India's gifts to modern science, adding to the stream of such comments derided by many as outrageous. Lord Ram's wife Sita is an example of a test-tube baby, UP's Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma has suggested.
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Mumbai's First Test Tube Baby Becomes Mother
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.
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Baby Born After Surviving As Frozen Embryo For 12 Years In China
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.
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Number of test-tube babies born in US hits record percentage
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.
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Doctors develop $260 test-tube baby system for poor world
Belgian doctors have developed a low-cost version of test-tube baby technology for use in developing countries, where sophisticated Western systems are unaffordable for most couples.
-
First test-tube baby born after new, cheaper genome screening
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.
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Frozen sperms for test-tube babies
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.
