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Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges – a developmental biologist and a bioethicist discuss IVF, abortion and the mice with two dads

  • Written by Keith Latham, Professor of Animal Science, Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University
Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges – a developmental biologist and a bioethicist discuss IVF, abortion and the mice with two dadsA few days after successful fertilization, an embryo becomes a rapidly dividing ball of cells called a blastocyst.Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

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