Reproductive technology

Reproductive technology is a term for all current and anticipated uses of technology in human and animal reproduction, including:

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Technology - Human - Animal - Reproduction

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• artificial insemination
• artificial wombs
• cloning (see human cloning for the special case of human beings)
• cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos
• embryo testing
• embryo transfer
• genetic engineering
• hormone treatment to increase fertility
• in vitro fertilization
• intracytoplasmic sperm injection
• preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
• sperm selection

Assisted reproduction or assisted reproductive technology (ART) is sometimes used as a term for fertility treatment using reproductive technology.

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ART - Fertility treatment

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Contraception may also be viewed as a form of reproductive technology, as it enables people to control their fertility.

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Many issues of reproductive technology have led to ethical issues being raised, since it often alters the assumptions that lie behind existing systems of sexual and reproductive morality.

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Ethical - Morality

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Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World was one of the earliest works to anticipate the social consequences of reproductive technology.

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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

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