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Domestic Policy Council Deputy Director Heidi Overton speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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President Donald Trump looks on with guests during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) speaks during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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President Donald Trump is seen with guests as he makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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President Donald Trump makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EMD Serono Senior Vice President of US Fertility & Endocrinology Libby Horne looks on during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

President Donald Trump makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

EMD Serono Senior Vice President of US Fertility & Endocrinology Libby Horne speaks alongside President Donald Trump and other guests during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

President Donald Trump makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to President Donald Trump during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

Samantha Busch, the wife of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, speaks during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

President Donald Trump shakes hands with EMD Serono Senior Vice President of US Fertility & Endocrinology Libby Horne during an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

President Donald Trump makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

President Donald Trump speaks alongside guests as he makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

President Donald Trump speaks alongside guests as he makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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White House

White House

President Donald Trump speaks alongside guests as he makes an annoucement about in vitro fertilization in the Oval Office at the White House Oct. 16, 2025. Photo by Francis Chung/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fertile eggs produced through egg donation from anonymous women

Fertile eggs produced through egg donation from anonymous women

TOKYO, June 27 Kyodo - Sachiko Kishimoto, the head of OD-Net, a nonprofit organization supporting fertility treatment, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2015. Two women with ovarian function problems have produced fertile eggs through in-vitro fertilization using sperm from their husbands and eggs donated from anonymous females, OD-Net said.

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Noda registers marriage

Noda registers marriage

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Seiko Noda, former post and telecommunications minister and a House of Representatives member of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. The 50-year-old lawmaker, who gave birth to a boy on Jan. 6, 2011, after in vitro fertilization, revealed on her blog Feb. 22, 2011, that she and her common-law husband had registered their marriage, with her husband adopting her family name, following the birth. Noda is a vocal advocate of a legal change to allow married couples to bear separate names.

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Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2004 at a Tokyo hotel shows British test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Oct. 4, 2010. Edwards developed in-vitro fertilization and helped bring about the birth of the first ''test-tube baby.''

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Clinic conducted unapproved tests on fertilized eggs

Clinic conducted unapproved tests on fertilized eggs

KOBE, Japan - Tetsuo Otani, who runs a women's clinic in Kobe's Nada Ward, speaks to reporters on Feb. 4 about the preimplantation genetic diagnosis he performed on fertilized eggs. Otani used the genetic diagnosis method on in vitro fertilized eggs from two women, contrary to the guidelines of The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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Old cow ova nuclei transplanted to young ovum, calf expected

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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Sperm from 2 men with HIV cleared of virus

Sperm from 2 men with HIV cleared of virus

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 15 shows the Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, where doctors said the sperm of two men with HIV has been cleared of the virus in successful vitro fertilization of their wives.

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Child born in Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

Child born in Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

SENDAI, Japan - Koichi Kyono, chief of a gynecological clinic in Fukukawa, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks at a news conference on Japan's first successful in vitro fertilization using a frozen egg. He said a woman, who had been unable to conceive normally because of tubal blockage, gave birth to a baby girl in April.

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Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 5 shows Kyono Ladies' Clinic in Furukawa, Miyagi Prefecture, where a baby girl was born in Japan's first successful in vitro fertilization using a frozen egg.

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Xinhua Headlines: Decade-long conservation efforts boost biodiversity in China's Yunnan

Xinhua Headlines: Decade-long conservation efforts boost biodiversity in China's Yunnan

(220916) -- KUNMING, Sept. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Oct. 20, 2021 shows the vitro storage room at the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

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Over 80 tons of imported medical supplies arrive in Shanghai through fast clearance

STORY: Over 80 tons of imported medical supplies arrive in Shanghai through fast clearance DATELINE: May 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:39 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Pudong International Airport 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU ZHE, Pudong International Airport Customs 3. various of Shanghai STORYLINE: According to Shanghai Customs, over 80 tons of medical supplies imported from Germany arrived in Shanghai on Sunday. The supplies included in-vitro diagnostic instruments, reagents and products for nucleic acid testing. Provided by Roche Diagnostics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, the supplies reached the city by charter flight and will be dispatched to hospitals, disease control and prevention centers, pathology research centers and laboratories in various cities including Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. Needs for imported medical supplies have increased greatly due to the COVID-19 resurgence in China. The collaboration between the customs and air transport sector has made it easier by pro

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First baby born in Japan via in vitro fertilization

First baby born in Japan via in vitro fertilization

Masakuni Suzuki, professor who chairs the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Tohoku University School of Medicine, holds up a picture of the first baby born in Japan via in vitro fertilization during a press conference to announce the feat by his team, held at a hospital affiliated with the state university in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 14, 1983. (5th on the list of the top 10 news that happened in Japan in 1983)

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Masakuni Suzuki, Japan's pioneer of test-tube babies, dies at 94

Masakuni Suzuki, Japan's pioneer of test-tube babies, dies at 94

File photo taken in March 1983 shows a team of fertility specialists at Tohoku University, led by Masakuni Suzuki (in suit seated L), announcing their success in Japan's first in-vitro fertilization, at the university in Sendai, northeastern Japan. Suzuki, an honorary member of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine, died of pancreatic cancer on Nov. 23, 2015, at Suzuki Memorial Hospital in northeastern Japan, the hospital said. He was 94. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fertile eggs produced through egg donation from anonymous women

Fertile eggs produced through egg donation from anonymous women

Sachiko Kishimoto (C), the head of OD-Net, a nonprofit organization supporting fertility treatment, and two other OD-Net officials attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2015. They said that two women with ovarian function problems have produced fertile eggs through in-vitro fertilization using sperm from their husbands and eggs donated from anonymous females. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old cow ova nuclei transplanted to young ovum, calf expected

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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Noda registers marriage

Noda registers marriage

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Seiko Noda, former post and telecommunications minister and a House of Representatives member of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. The 50-year-old lawmaker, who gave birth to a boy on Jan. 6, 2011, after in vitro fertilization, revealed on her blog Feb. 22, 2011, that she and her common-law husband had registered their marriage, with her husband adopting her family name, following the birth. Noda is a vocal advocate of a legal change to allow married couples to bear separate names. (Kyodo)

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Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2004 at a Tokyo hotel shows British test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Oct. 4, 2010. Edwards developed in-vitro fertilization and helped bring about the birth of the first ''test-tube baby.'' (Kyodo)

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Infertile woman delivers baby using egg donated by anonymous female

Infertile woman delivers baby using egg donated by anonymous female

A representative of nonprofit organization, OD-Net, or Oocyte Donation Network, attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2017. The NPO supporting fertility treatment said a woman with ovarian complications has given birth to a baby through in-vitro fertilization using her husband's sperm and an egg donated by an anonymous female. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Infertile woman delivers baby using egg donated by anonymous female

Infertile woman delivers baby using egg donated by anonymous female

A representative of nonprofit organization, OD-Net, or Oocyte Donation Network, attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2017. The NPO supporting fertility treatment said a woman with ovarian complications has given birth to a baby through in-vitro fertilization using her husband's sperm and an egg donated by an anonymous female. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clinic conducted unapproved tests on fertilized eggs

Clinic conducted unapproved tests on fertilized eggs

KOBE, Japan - Tetsuo Otani, who runs a women's clinic in Kobe's Nada Ward, speaks to reporters on Feb. 4 about the preimplantation genetic diagnosis he performed on fertilized eggs. Otani used the genetic diagnosis method on in vitro fertilized eggs from two women, contrary to the guidelines of The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. (Kyodo)

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Sperm from 2 men with HIV cleared of virus

Sperm from 2 men with HIV cleared of virus

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 15 shows the Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, where doctors said the sperm of two men with HIV has been cleared of the virus in successful vitro fertilization of their wives.

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Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 5 shows Kyono Ladies' Clinic in Furukawa, Miyagi Prefecture, where a baby girl was born in Japan's first successful in vitro fertilization using a frozen egg.

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Child born in Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

Child born in Japan's 1st successful in vitro fertilization

SENDAI, Japan - Koichi Kyono, chief of a gynecological clinic in Fukukawa, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks at a news conference on Japan's first successful in vitro fertilization using a frozen egg. He said a woman, who had been unable to conceive normally because of tubal blockage, gave birth to a baby girl in April.

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