Slower sperm are beaten by stronger and faster sperm when competing to fertilise an egg due to restrictive bottlenecks in the female reproductive tract...
A Dutch court has granted permission for DNA tests to establish whether a deceased fertility doctor substituted his own sperm when treating patients...
The World Health Organization is convening an 18-member committee of scientific experts from around the globe next month with the goal of developing international standards for the oversight of human genome editing...
England's most senior family judge has invited the Health Secretary to review fertility laws after hearing the case of a trans man unable to be recognised as father on his child’s birth certificate...
Selecting sperm with greater stamina results in offspring that are healthier and live longer, according to a recent study in zebrafish...
Israel's High Court of Justice has ruled that a woman may not use the sperm of a prolific US donor to become pregnant...
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Paid-for NHS genomic testing could undermine the 100,000 Genomes Project's work
by Professor Bobbie Farsides
Few people can fail to have noticed the response to health secretary Matt Hancock's plans to allow healthy people to pay for NHS genomic testing on the understanding that they will agree to share their results for the purposes of research — a plan which