Book Review: Roads to Family – All the ways we come to be
Different accounts of infertility and the way affected people navigated their way to building a family, come together in this book…
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Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human (HeLa) cell in telophase (chromatin stained blue, microtubules forming the spindle stained green, kinetochores stained pink).
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Book Review: Biomedical Innovation in Fertility Care – Evidence challenges, commercialisation and the market for hope
Manuela Perrotta's book unveils regulatory inadequacies that expose patients to abuse by the profit-driven medical industry...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Podcast Review: Born for This – Two IVF (first) babies have a chat
Hear Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, in conversation with Elizabeth Carr, the 14th IVF baby and first US IVF birth...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Podcast Review: Prognosis – Misconception
This podcast from Bloomberg’s Prognosis shines a light on the emotions that are brought up when a deeply intimate corner of medicine collides with business…
Event Review: Misfit Meltdown – A standup hour
A work in progress stand-up hour that was a quintessential Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience…
TV Review: The Wrong Sperm, Destroyed Embryos, and the Fight Against the IVF Giants
Michaela Chen reviews a 'a tale as old as industrialism', about the fight families brought to find out more about their lost embryos and information about their sperm donors…
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
TV Review: The Man with 1000 Kids
A chilling story of a man who is purported to have fathered up to 1000 children through sperm donation...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Book Review: Baby X
In this dystopian novel, eggs or sperm can be created from any person's cells, resulting in celebrities facing the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived...
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.
Book Review: How Life Works – A user's guide to the new biology
Award-winning and prolific science writer, Dr Philip Ball, offers a wide perspective in his latest book 'How Life Works'...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Podcast Review: Make People Better
A podcast series to accompany the film 'Make People Better' gives unique insights into the controversial creation of genome-edited babies by Dr He Jiankui...
