Reproductive technology Totally Explained

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Reproductive technology is a term for all current and anticipated uses of technology in human and animal reproduction, including assisted reproductive technology, contraception and others.==Assisted reproductive technology==
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is the use of reproductive technology to treat infertility. This is today the only application of reproductive technology to increase reproduction that's used routinely. Examples include in vitro fertilization and its possible expansions.

artificial insemination
cloning (see human cloning for the special case of human beings)
cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos
embryo transfer
hormone treatment
in vitro fertilisation
- intracytoplasmic sperm injection
preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
surrogacy
testicular sperm extraction (TESE)
Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT)

Contraception

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

Others

The following techniques, in contrast to ART, are not yet routinely used. In fact, most of them are even at the developmental stage:

artificial wombs

germinal choice technology

in vitro parthenogenesis

reprogenetics

Controversy

Many issues of reproductive technology have led to bioethical issues being raised, since it often alters the assumptions that lie behind existing systems of sexual and reproductive morality.
Besides, ethic issued of human enhancement arise when reproductive technology has evolved to be a potential technology for not only reproductively inhibited people but even for otherwise reproductively healthy people.

In fiction

Science fiction has tackled the themes of creating life through other than the conventional methods since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) was the first major fictional work to anticipate the possible social consequences of reproductive technology. Its largely negative view was reversed when the author revisited the same themes in his utopian final novel, Island (1962). A fuller list of fiction that deals with the ideas raised by reproductive technologies can be found at Reproduction and pregnancy in science fiction.

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