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    Polygenic testing of IVF embryos: False hope for instilling disease resistance and desirable traits?

    Is It Worth an Extra Inch of Height? The research team wants IVF customers to understand how much (or little) the likelihood of the disease or trait changes if they use polygenic scoring to select an embryo, rather than randomly selecting one among their healthy candidates. This size of this...
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    Polygenic testing of IVF embryos: False hope for instilling disease resistance and desirable traits?

    https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/embryo-selection-polygenic-scoring-and-unrealistic-expectations/ False hope for instilling disease resistance and desirable traits? Since the 1990s, in vitro fertilization paired with genetic testing has helped biological parents identify embryos that are immune...
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    Regulations on IVF sex selection, sperm, egg and embryo donation in Vietnam

    It is illegal to use IVF for gender selection in Vietnam so the couple chose a hospital in Thailand. They paid $20,000, spent the whole of November in hospital and are now expecting twins...
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    The latest conditions for altruistic gestational surrogacy in Vietnam

    Hanoi jails members of $29,000 surrogacy ring https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/hanoi-surrogacy-ring-of-family-members-busted-4646033.html Woman arrested for running commercial surrogacy service...
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    The latest conditions for altruistic gestational surrogacy in Vietnam

    https://lawnet.vn/thong-tin-phap-luat/en/tu-van-luat/the-latest-conditions-for-altruistic-gestational-surrogacy-in-vietnam-117544.html What are the regulations on the latest conditions for altruistic gestational surrogacy in Vietnam? Regarding this issue, LawNet responded as follows: 1...
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    Regulations on IVF sex selection, sperm, egg and embryo donation in Vietnam

    Vietnam to strictly punish doctors who provide gender selection services https://vietnamnet.vn/en/vietnam-to-strictly-punish-doctors-who-provide-gender-selection-services-611911.html Vietnam to strictly punish doctors who provide gender selection services <p><img class='logo-small' title=''...
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    Regulations on IVF sex selection, sperm, egg and embryo donation in Vietnam

    https://lawnet.vn/thong-tin-phap-luat/en/tu-van-luat/regulations-on-donation-and-receipt-of-sperm-eggs-and-embryos-in-vietnam-112395.html In particular, please take note of the following text: Sperm or eggs of a donor shall be used for only one person and may be used for another person only in...
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    Proposal for egg freezing subsidies in Singapore

    Committee of Supply 2024 debate, Day 5: MP Hazel Poa on egg freezing https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/committee-supply-2024-debate-day-5-hazel-poa-egg-freezing-4172976 https://www.progress.org.uk/singapore-can-justify-public-egg-freezing-subsidy-by-imposing-strict-conditions/...
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    IVF success rates of private IVF clinics in Singapore is lower than public IVF centres

    MP Rahayu Mahzam on assisted reproduction success rates https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/rahayu-mahzam-assisted-reproduction-success-rates-4105886
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    Singapore should beware of the pitfalls of co-funding private IVF treatment

    Committee of Supply 2024 debate, Day 5: Louis Ng on extending IVF subsidies to private clinics, providing subsidies for fertility testing and ensuring nurses have sufficient rest...
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    Singapore should beware of the pitfalls of co-funding private IVF treatment

    https://www.163.com/dy/article/ISCLAUSS0524A4QN.html?spss=dy_author https://www.sgnews.co/104840.html 新加坡应该提防补贴私营机构试管婴儿治疗的陷阱 三思而行!私营医疗机构的最终目标是实现利润最大化,因为它们需要对股东负责,而公立医院则对政府和公民负责。关键问题是,新加坡将公民的税款用于补贴私营机构的试管婴儿治疗,能获得多少价值? 新加坡生育率创新低, 或将试管婴儿补贴扩大至私人诊所...
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    Singapore should beware of the pitfalls of co-funding private IVF treatment

    https://bioedge.org/beginning-of-life-issues/ivf/singapore-should-beware-of-the-pitfalls-of-subsidizing-private-ivf-treatment/ Singapore should beware of the pitfalls of subsidizing private IVF treatment Singapore faces a demographic milestone as its total fertility rate (TFR) for 2023 has for...
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    Latest PGT-A / PGS data published in Singapore Medical Journal showed no significant improvement in IVF success rates

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38363646/ Analysis of a preimplantation genetic test for aneuploidies in 893 screened blastocysts using KaryoLite BoBs: a single-centre experience Abstract Introduction: Does euploidy of trophectoderm (TE) biopsies correlate with conventional blastocyst...
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    Genome Editing

    https://www.todayonline.com/voices/3-reasons-why-singapore-justified-restricting-ivf-genetic-screening-2363291 3 reasons why S'pore is justified in restricting genetic screening of IVF embryos I refer to the article "Baby Steps: 'Toughest period of my life', say women who underwent costly...
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    Genome Editing

    https://www.progress.org.uk/ethics-of-germline-genome-editing-to-prevent-genetic-diseases-from-an-islamic-perspective/ Ethics of germline genome editing to prevent genetic diseases from an Islamic perspective...

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