Posthumous reproduction has been performed in Japan several times, without sufficient civic discussion on its appropriateness or legislative regulation. There have even been several lawsuits on posthumous acknowledgment (in which a baby born to a deceased father has the same birthright as a baby born to a living father), and some judgments have proposed the need to develop societal agreement on...

Marsha Garrison1 and Michele Goodwin2 have each written clever, edgy, and insightful articles on the oversight of new reproductive technologies. Both of them frame the issues around the regulation of reproduction, not assisted reproduction. “Assisted reproduction” might mean doctors, clinics, or patients. “Reproduction” clearly means mothers. Both are correct in this recognition: the regulation...

OBJECTIVE To compare life satisfaction between women with successful or unsuccessful outcome after assisted reproductive treatment (ART) by taking into account the time since the last ART. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Tertiary hospital. PATIENTS A total of 987 consecutive women who had undergone ART during 1996-2007 were invited and altogether 505 women participated in the study. INTERV...

This Application Note demonstrates the capability of the Agilent 1290 Infi nity 2D-LC Solution for heart-cutting applications. As an example, a minor impurity is resolved by heart cutting from a co-eluting main compound. The minor impurity, which is isolated on a second-dimension column after heart cutting, is verifi ed by additional spiking and statistical evaluation of the separation performa...

Commercialization of animal biotechnologies, including those related to reproduction [also known as assisted reproductive techniques (ARTS)], is an increasing reality in developing countries, following the enormous flow of information around us and the increasing global commercial interests in areas where cattle production has its major assets. The present review discusses the achievements of v...

The physiologic importance of the endometrium in assisted reproductive technology is now receiving much research attention. The historical importance of ultrasound for determination of endometrial pattern, thickness and contractility is reviewed and speculation provided for a possible mechanism of the adverse effect of thin endometrium on implantation.

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