A mature female reproductive cell, which contains half the genetic information needed to make a new human. Also known as an oocyte.
Belgian fertility pioneer Professor André Van Steirtegheim's book looks back over an incredible career, but lacks personal insights, writes embryologist Emily St John Jones...
France will need to update its bioethics law by 2028. Adrien Bottacci explains what recent recommendations could mean for the 14-day limit on human embryo research, and for research involving stem-cell-based embryo models...
The High Court of Australia has ruled that a prisoner can apply to freeze her eggs while in custody, because egg freezing does not qualify as 'assisted reproductive technology'...
Two research teams have used different DNA-recording technologies to trace cell lineages in developing mouse embryos...
Dr Sylvie Armstrong reviews an episode of the Surrogacy Daddy podcast exploring the emotional and ethical complexities of surrogacy as well as wider systemic inequalities affecting maternal health and reproductive autonomy, following a surrogate's life-threatening health complications
Surrogacy is not prohibited in Argentina, but there are no specific laws regulating it. Dr Paula Siverino Bavio explains how judges are dealing with complicated cases...
A UK judge has granted a parental order after illegal commercial surrogacy in China, despite 'strongly deprecating' the intended parents' choices...
Dr Andrea Martani discusses age cutoffs for IVF and fertility treatment: are they based on medical evidence or societal norms?...
Parental age and various procedures used during assisted reproductive technology have been linked to different patterns of mutational changes in the DNA of offspring...
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