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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.
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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.
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20 August 2021 • 4 minutes read

Improving sperm cell analysis: a new WHO manual

by Ana Vasconcelos and 1 others

The wait is over…. The new WHO Semen Analysis manual – version six – is now live!...

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Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
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Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false-coloured cryogenic scanning electron micrograph).
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20 August 2021 • 2 minutes read

Lab-grown brain organoids develop primitive eyes

by Dr Emma Green

Brain organoids grown in the lab can develop primitive eyes called optic cups, containing key cell types that are able to respond to light...

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.
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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 sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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20 August 2021 • 2 minutes read

Genetic variants that cause hypertension in pregnancy identified

by Dr Laura Riggall

An international study has identified a unique pair of gene variants that can cause the sudden onset of high blood pressure in pregnant women...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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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.
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20 August 2021 • 2 minutes read

BRCA2 DNA repair errors implicated in infertility

by Dr Molly Godfrey

BRCA2 mutations may be implicated in infertility, as well as increasing cancer risk, according to new research...

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20 August 2021 • 2 minutes read

mRNA HIV vaccine trial to start

by Dr Elissar Gerges

Moderna has started a trial for its HIV vaccine, based on mRNA technology...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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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.
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20 August 2021 • 2 minutes read

Men over 50 less likely to have successful fertility treatment

by Joseph Hawkins

The chance of live birth following assisted reproduction is significantly reduced when the prospective father is over the age of 50, a recent study has revealed…

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20 August 2021 • 1 minute read

Kerala rules on donor conception birth certificate requirement

by Blair Sowry

Requiring a sperm donor's name to be recorded on children's birth certificates may breach privacy laws, according to the High Court of Kerala in India...

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20 August 2021 • 1 minute read

Dr Beverly Searle, CEO of charity Unique, to retire

by Hannah Flynn

Dr Beverly Searle, CEO of Unique, is retiring at the end of August, marking the end of more than 30 years of service to the charity for people with rare chromosomal conditions...

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18 June 2021 • 5 minutes read

Book Review: (M)otherhood – On the choices of being a woman

(M)otherhood is a frank, moving account of what it means to be a woman in a society that remains conflicted by fertility and female identity...

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