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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Japanese TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada are pictured during a press conference on April 11, 2007, after the Supreme Court repealed in March a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court finalized Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the 2003 births of the boys.(Kyodo)

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Babies born via surrogate mother

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Former pro wrestler Nobuhiko Takada and TV personality Aki Mukai hold up a piece of paper showing the names of their twin babies, born through a surrogate mother in the United States, during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2004.

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Surrogate arrangement for babies

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Undated combined photo shows TV personality Aki Mukai and medical doctor Yahiro Netsu. Mukai's twin babies were born through a surrogate mother in the United States in 2003. Netsu said in 2001 his maternity clinic had made a surrogacy arrangement for a woman, becoming the first Japanese medical institution to officially announce such a procedure.(Kyodo)

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XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2022-CHINA NEWS

(230110) -- BEIJING, Jan. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (L) and a beagle, which is the surrogate mother of the arctic wolf, at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The cloned arctic wolf's donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland in 2006. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Surrogate mother in Mumbai, India

MUMBAI, India - A surrogate mother, with her back turned to the camera, is seen in Mumbai, India, on Aug. 19, 2014. The Indian government last year placed stricter regulations on foreign visitors seeking surrogacy services in the country.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - A nurse at the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, holds a surrogate-born baby boy at the clinic on Feb. 29. A woman in her 50s gave birth to the boy, who is her grandson, through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3.

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Old cow ova nuclei transplanted to young ovum, calf expected

MORIOKA, Japan - A surrogate mother cow (in photo taken Feb. 19) in Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, is expecting a calf inheriting genetic information from aged female cows. A joint clinic and university team involved in the project said the ova nuclei from the older cows were transplanted into a younger cow's ovum, whose nucleus had been removed, and that the fertilized eggs produced through in vitro fertilization of this ovum were then transplanted into four surrogate mother cows, two of which became pregnant.

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Doctor says produced 1st surrogate birth in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Suwa Maternity Clinic Director Yahiro Netsu meets the press on May 19 to announce he has helped a woman become the first surrogate mother in Japan. The woman successfully gave birth at the clinic in the town of Shimosuwa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, this spring for her sister, who had undergone a hysterectomy.

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (R) at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (L) and a beagle, which is the surrogate mother of the arctic wolf, at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Calf born using sperm of cloned bull

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 4 by the Cattle Breeding Institute in Osumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, shows a calf born from a surrogate mother impregnated through artificial insemination with the sperm of a bull cloned from somatic cells. Researchers at the institute said the birth, a first for Japan and probably the world, proves that cloned bulls are capable of breeding and is a step toward using cloning technology in stock breeding.

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA TINA FEY, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, AMY POEHLER Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA [US 2008] TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER [L-R] Mother-to-be Kate Holbrook (TINA FEY) and surrogate Angie (AMY POEHLER) trash an ex-boyfriend's car.] BABY MAMA [US 2008] TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER [L-R] Mother-to-be Kate Holbrook (TINA FEY) and surrogate Angie (AMY POEHLER) trash an ex-boyfriend's car.] Date: 2008

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3. (Kyodo)

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb. (Kyodo)

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Old cow ova nuclei transplanted to young ovum, calf expected

MORIOKA, Japan - A surrogate mother cow (in photo taken Feb. 19) in Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, is expecting a calf inheriting genetic information from aged female cows. A joint clinic and university team involved in the project said the ova nuclei from the older cows were transplanted into a younger cow's ovum, whose nucleus had been removed, and that the fertilized eggs produced through in vitro fertilization of this ovum were then transplanted into four surrogate mother cows, two of which became pregnant.

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Doctor says produced 1st surrogate birth in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Suwa Maternity Clinic Director Yahiro Netsu meets the press on May 19 to announce he has helped a woman become the first surrogate mother in Japan. The woman successfully gave birth at the clinic in the town of Shimosuwa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, this spring for her sister, who had undergone a hysterectomy.

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Cloned, genetically altered goat to be born in Aug.

TSUKUBA, Japan - Photo released by the National Institute of Animal Industry on July 12 shows a surrogate mother goat that is expected to give birth to Japan's first genetically altered kid goat cloned from somatic cells in early August.