Call for temporary ban on heritable genome editing in humans
A group of international experts is calling for a moratorium on the clinical use of germline genome editing in humans...
A group of international experts is calling for a moratorium on the clinical use of germline genome editing in humans...
A woman's risk of developing cancer is up to one fifth higher for those with fertility issues compared with those without these problems, according to new research...
The Lancet has retracted a 2011 paper reporting clinical trial data using cardiac stem cells isolated by Dr Piero Anversa's former laboratory...
In the first case of its kind, a lawyer will represent an aborted embryo in an Alabama court, potentially setting a precedent that could affect fertility treatments such as IVF...
A survey by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has found that 44 percent of women aged 18-24 would consider freezing their eggs in the future...
The average birth weight of babies conceived by IVF has increased by approximately 180 grams over a 25-year period, a UK study suggests...
A group of women is bringing the UK's first legal challenge to the ten-year limit on preserving frozen eggs...
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Does cannabis really improve sperm counts? The data to date
by Professor Sheena Lewis
The study published last month by Dr Jorge Chavarro's group at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts was indeed a 'surprise study' given the plethora of papers showing contradictory effects...
Getting reliable fertility advice free of commercial interest
by Kate Brian
It has never been easier to find information about fertility, with a mass of material online about anything you might want to investigate. There are hundreds of thousands of words covering every condition, test and treatment. And yet it has never been har