No difference between fresh and frozen sperm for IUI
The largest study of its kind has found no difference in pregnancy rates between intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles using fresh or frozen sperm...
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Anonymous donor
A gamete donor whose identity is not known to the recipient or to the resulting donor-conceived person.
Most gamete donors who donated before 1 April 2005 at licensed clinics in the UK are anonymous. Some anonymous donors have chosen to reregister as identifiable donors.
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Dutch donor-conceived people seek answers
A Dutch fertility doctor has been found to be the genetic father of at least three patients conceived in his clinic...
Children's rights and donor conception: What next?
There have been recent reports that the UK's assisted reproduction regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is considering changing the law surrounding donor anonymity, due to the growing use of consumer genetic testing...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
The problems with lifting donor anonymity earlier
A possible review of the law relating to donor anonymity has been proposed by HFEA chief executive Peter Thompson...
Podcast Review: The Outlook – The shocking truth about my three dads
Dr Elpida Fragouli listened to this BBC podcast about a Texan woman who found out her genetic father was her mother's fertility doctor...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Canadian doctor loses licence for using own sperm in IVF
A Canadian fertility specialist, Dr Norman Barwin, has lost his medical licence for using the wrong sperm, including his own, to inseminate a number of IVF patients...
Canadian citizenship quirk leaves surrogate-born twins stateless
A Canadian man whose twin girls were born via gestational surrogacy in Kenya is currently unable to bring his children home due to Canadian citizenship laws...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
New crime of 'fertility fraud' proposed in Indiana
A proposed bill in Indiana would make it a crime for a doctor to use his own sperm during fertility treatment without the patient's consent...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Anonymous gamete donation to be banned in Ireland
The anonymous donation of sperm and eggs for use in assisted reproduction is due to be banned in Ireland by next autumn...
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.
Personal genetic testing and the implications for the donor conception community
2017 was the year that personal genetic testing took off in a big way...