A team of US scientists from the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virginia reported to the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) last week that they had devised a method of sorting sperm by gender. The technique, called MicroSort, can greatly improve the...
Professor Susan Golombok, director of the City University Family and Child Research Centre spoke at the ESHRE meeting last week about new data on children born following assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs). The data comes from the next stage in an ongoing European study of assisted reproduction families and looks at...
Doctors and scientists from the University of Birmingham and Genosis, a medical devices company in the UK, have developed a 'fertility test kit' that can be used - both by men and women - at home. The kit is called 'Fertell' and is designed to measure fertility levels in couples trying to...
Last week's ESHRE conference was warned that human clones could be dangerous. Dr Guido de Wert, a research fellow in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Maastricht, told the conference that he believed that the potential serious health risks that could occur in cloned humans mean that reproductive cloning should...
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Special ESHRE conference issue
by Juliet Tizzard
Last week, in the sleepy Swiss town of Lausanne, nearly 4000 doctors, scientists, nurses and counsellors met to catch up on the latest research in reproductive medicine. The delegates were treated to 250 papers and presentations on everything from anonymous egg donation to genetic causes of poor sperm production. Given...