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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

histone deacetylation --- CpG methylation --- cytocrin --- epigenetic factors --- Epigenetic traits --- Pregnancy --- Sugar metabolism --- eye epigenetics --- in vitro fertilization

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In January 1979, Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe delivered a lecture detailing the ten-year clinical and scientific research programme that led to the birth of Louise Brown, the first baby born utilising IVF. This thoroughly-researched book provides both a full annotated transcript of the lecture as well as recorded reminiscences from those who attended, detailing the contemporary understandings of the event. An essay on the lecture's historical context adds fresh insight into the biographies of Edwards and Steptoe and highlights sources from print and broadcast media that have received scant attention in earlier publications. Current and future implications of the advances in IVF since the first procedure are also explored, examining future medical and scientific possibilities as well as ethical issues that may arise.

Fertilization in vitro, Human. --- Babies, Test tube --- Human fertilization in vitro --- Human in vitro fertilization --- Test tube babies --- Conception --- Human reproductive technology

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Science: general issues --- Medical genetics --- histone deacetylation --- CpG methylation --- cytocrin --- epigenetic factors --- Epigenetic traits --- Pregnancy --- Sugar metabolism --- eye epigenetics --- in vitro fertilization

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The field of In Vitro Fertilization is a relatively new field in medicine, constantly on the move. This field is an exquisite example of the vast power in the complementary use of basic research with clinical practice and opened a new route of great basic and clinical research possibilities. The knowledge base that allowed the accomplishment of the idea of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer has much developed since. The vast body of research pertaining to this field allowed deepening our understanding in the processes related to reproduction. In this book on in vitro fertilization we present new and interesting updated information in various aspects of this field. This work is a result of collaborative work of an international group of professionals dedicated to contribute to the advancement of our knowledge.

Fertilization in vitro. --- Fertilization in vitro, Human. --- Babies, Test tube --- Human fertilization in vitro --- Human in vitro fertilization --- Test tube babies --- Conception --- Human reproductive technology --- Ectogenesis, Preimplantational --- Fertilization, In vitro --- Fertilization, Laboratory --- Fertilization, Test tube --- In vitro fertilization --- IVF (Reproduction) --- Laboratory fertilization --- Preimplantational ectogenesis --- Test tube fertilization --- Genetic engineering --- Reproductive technology --- Urology & urogenital medicine

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In 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law.

Motherhood --- Human reproductive technology --- Reproductive rights --- Social aspects --- motherhood, birth, ivf, pregnancy, infertility, in vitro fertilization, life, policy, reproduction, conception, family planning, women, gender, healthcare, women's health, mother, medicine, fertility, sociology, maternity.