STAT17h
At meeting on guardrails for gene editing of human embryos, some call for a dead end
At meeting on human embryo editing, CRISPR pioneer says science is a long way from knowing if germline DNA can be safely ...
MIT Technology Review17hOpinion
“Spare” living human bodies might provide us with organs for transplantation
One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...
National Catholic Register7d
Human Embryos Aren’t Property, Virginia Judge Rules
A Virginia judge this week ruled that embryos aren’t property in a lawsuit between two ex-spouses over their two IVF-produced ...
DNA from the mother and father are handled differently in the newly formed embryo, researchers discover
Researchers at the Center for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in ...
Virginia Courts Won't Split Ownership of Divorced Couple's Embryos
"The unique nature of each human embryo means that an equal division cannot conveniently be made," writes a Virginia judge.
Judge says human embryos from IVF are not divisible property, upending ruling based on slave law
A Virginia judge ruled that human embryos are not property, despite a court having previously ruled that embryos could be ...
MIT Technology Review3d
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...
Embryos aren’t property, judge says, dismissing woman’s case against ex
A judge in northern Virginia has dismissed the long-running case of a cancer survivor who sued her ex-husband for access to ...
Catholic News Agency7d
Human embryos aren’t property, Virginia judge rules
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard Gardiner, who is no longer assigned to the case, ruled in 2023 that human embryos could legally be considered property, citing a 19th-century state law ...
Reason11d
Virginia Courts Won't Split Ownership of Divorced Couple's Embryos
Bugg disagreed, dismissing Honeyhline Heidemann's suit and holding that "human embryos are not subject to partition" under Virginia law "as they do not constitute goods or chattels capable of ...
Cells That Build Themselves Into an Embryo? Scientists Just Made It Happen
Scientists have found a way to study early embryonic development without real embryos. Using CRISPR, they programmed stem cells to self-organize into structures mimicking early embryos. The cells show ...