Former fertility test underestimated egg reserve by 68 percent
An Australian study has found that a popular fertility test, available until 2013, significantly underestimated egg reserves...
Dr Rachel Montgomery is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and is a Volunteer Writer at its flagship publication BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. Previously she studied for a PhD at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, part of University College London (UCL), which was funded by the MRC. Her work made use of a fission yeast model to better understand Batten Disease, a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects children. Previously, she completed an MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine, also at UCL, and studied Medical Biology at Edinburgh University.
An Australian study has found that a popular fertility test, available until 2013, significantly underestimated egg reserves...
The US Food and Drug Drug Administration is embarking on strengthening its regulatory oversight over medical laboratory testing, including so-called 'laboratory developed tests'...
A Danish study has reported that ovarian tissue transplants appear to be safe and can restore fertility in women who have undergone treatment for cancer, with around one in three procedures in young women leading to live births....
An Australian couple have been denied access to IVF after a court ruled it would not be in the best interests of the child....
Poland's lower house of parliament has approved a bill that, for the first time, provides statutory regulation of IVF in the country...
A 59-year-old woman has initiated an unprecedented legal battle to take possession of her deceased daughter's eggs in order to act as a surrogate for her own grandchild...
The first baby in Europe has been born following a new IVF-based technique developed to prevent the inheritance of genetic disorders...
On 15 March 2015, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics held its annual public lecture, which this year featured political scientist and philosopher Dr Amy Gutmann, chair of the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues...
I arrived with some bemusement at this one-hour debate, 'Does Egg Freezing Enable Women to "Have It All"?', to Beyoncé playing out loudly to an excited lecture theatre...
Held at the Houses of Parliament, and organised by the Progress Educational Trust (the charity that publishes BioNews), this public debate was well attended. With all the chairs taken and many more people standing, people clearly felt it was important to discuss these issues...
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