Eleanor Gallegos is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is working as a Reproductive Science Practitioner at IVI London Clinic and completed a BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham before studying an MSc in Reproductive Science and Women’s Health at University College London. Eleanor's research project focused on studying the influence of aneuploidy on the gene expression profile of DNA repair and cell cycle checkpoint genes in human embryos.
Two publications about Y chromosome sequencing have contributed to the completion of the reference genome available to researchers, in a way that could improve understanding of male health and fertility...
Women with a history of infertility are more likely to experience more severe menopausal symptoms, particularly depression, irritability and sleep problems...
A male fertility testing service has launched on the UK high street for the first time...
Babies conceived following IVF or ICSI in the USA have a fourfold higher neonatal mortality rate if born to black women...
High doses of follicle-stimulating hormone during ovarian stimulation may disrupt follicular function leading to reduced egg quality...
Early human oocytes remodel their metabolic activity, which enables them to remain dormant and reproductively viable for decades...
The use of polygenic risk scores to select embryos is being advertised and sold by some private fertility clinics...
Gene expression during early development of primordial germ cells is sex-specific...
The number of parents using surrogacy to build their families is rising in England and Wales...
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