Four-fold rise in births to women over 50 in England and Wales
Hundreds of babies are being born every year to women aged over 50, according to official figures for England and Wales...
Georgia Canton is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and works as an Embryologist at King's Fertility in London. She completed the NHS Scientific Training Programme in 2023, with her research project investigating the use of morphokinetic data to predict the likelihood of aneuploidy in embryos. She studied her MSc in Reproductive Medicine: Science and Ethics at the University of Kent and her BSc in Medical Genetics at the University of Leicester. She tweets as @GE_Everett
Hundreds of babies are being born every year to women aged over 50, according to official figures for England and Wales...
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