Understanding Miscarriage: Pregnancy Loss after Fertility Treatment
This PET event explored pregnancy loss in the context of fertility treatment...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Ahmed Amer
Senior embryologist at ARGC in London
Ahmed Amer is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. He is a senior embryologist at ARGC in London with over 12 years of experience in assisted reproductive technologies and six years in HealthTech. He is currently the CEO and founder of MyFertility, a digital health platform that helps patients navigate fertility treatment, find and compare IVF clinic success rates and costs, connect with service providers, and access unbiased facts and information. Ahmed holds a master's degrees in medical engineering, and clinical embryology, and an MBA. He co-founded and successfully exited IVF_Explained in 2016.
BioNews Articles by Ahmed Amer
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Radio Review: Room 5 Medical Mysteries – Gareth
Ahmed Amer reviews a tale of male infertility, diagnosis and IVF success...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
TV Review: Spotlight – The babymaker uncovered
Watching Ruth Ellen Logan on BBC's Spotlight 'The Babymaker Uncovered' reminded me of the time a car salesman sold me my first car. It was a decade ago, but I still remember being told how incredible the car was, only for my used Citroen C2 to fail its first MOT...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Book Review: The Fertility Book – Your definitive guide to achieving a healthy pregnancy
If you are interested in finding out about fertility and fertility treatment, you will most likely embark on an online crusade only to find yourself completely inundated with information, a lot of which, sadly, is not very accurate...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Podcast Review: Male Infertility with Kevin Button
I first heard about the Fertility Podcast a few years ago from a patient who told me her and her partner used the podcast series, and other social media outlets, as a method of deciphering the unfamiliar world of infertility treatment they inadvertently found themselves in...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
TV Review: Stand Up to Infertility
A question to all men: Do you feel your fertility is linked to how much of a man you are?...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Film Review: What We Wanted
Austria's Oscar submission, 'What We Wanted', addresses a couple's struggle with infertility and IVF failure...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Film Review: The Easy Bit
'You just need to produce your sample in the pot.'...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Film Review: Childless in the World's Most Fertile Country
The impact infertility has on the quality of life is significant...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Exhibition Review: Human Nature
As a scientist, genetics has always fascinated me; it's our looks, traits, behaviours and diseases; our past, our present and our future...
