This week, I stumbled upon two articles that I found interesting and relevant to the course
The first is called 'Egg Freezing Changing Fertility Treatments' which discussed the use of donated frozen eggs to assist women trying to get pregnant (as opposed to the more common 'fresh egg' donations). As the eggs are frozen, they can be shipped all over the country which opens up a new online egg donor market. On these online marketplaces, families can literally view a spreadsheet of potential egg donors that lists donor characteristics including height, hair color, eye color, education, ethnicity etc. It is interesting to see the way the internet and new scientific technologies are opening up the egg donor market and allowing someone to purchase something so important online, similarly to how one would purchase a book from Amazon or clothes from an online retailer.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/22/health/frozen-egg-banks/index.html?hpt=he_t3
The second article was relevant to the film we watched last week, Gattaca. It discussed the growing popularity of genome sequencing in infants to determine what diseases they were at risk for. It also went over the potential benefits and negative repercussions involved in delving into these developing technologies.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/22/health/sequence-children-genomes/?iref=obinsite
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