Melinda Van Kerckvoorde is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is an Associate Consultant at Scendea, supporting clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry with regulatory submissions to European and US agencies. Melinda completed her BSc in Biomedicine at Lancaster University and used computational models to understand embryo size regulation during her MPhil in Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge. She then joined Dr Marta Shahbazi's lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as an intern to study aneuploidy in human embryos. Now, she is looking for a new challenge to spin out more fertility research from labs into the real world and encourage reproductive health awareness.
Variations in the viscosity, or 'stickiness', of fluid in the fallopian tubes influence the behaviour of cells lining tubes, potentially impacting fertility...
Homerton Fertility Centre will start a phased return to providing fertility treatment in August, after having its licence suspended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in March 2024...
A 2002 Nature paper claiming that adult stem cells from bone marrow can become nearly any cell type has been retracted by Nature, making it the most-cited retracted paper ever...
Intended parents affected by the fertility clinic scandal in Crete, Greece last year, now have just 20 days to collect their embryos before the facility they are stored at closes...
A Belgian man who donated sperm to a clinical trial in the 1970s discovered his sperm had been used to conceive two children without his permission...
Michigan legislators are taking steps to protect IVF and overturn a ban on commercial surrogacy...
Alabama's legislature has passed a new law to protect fertility clinics from criminal charges following the State Supreme Court's ruling that embryos created through IVF are considered children...
A worker at a fertility clinic in the Netherlands substituted his own sperm in patient treatments, resulting in at least 11 children...
Further political debate on whether embryo research should be extended to a 28-day limit may be postponed following the unforeseen far right win during last week's Dutch national election…
The Health Council of the Netherlands has recommended that the 14-day rule for embryo research should be extended to a 28-day rule, as this could yield knowledge that helps to prevent developmental diseases and treat infertility...
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