A mature female reproductive cell, which contains half the genetic information needed to make a new human. Also known as an oocyte.
Dr Fitzgerald urges GPs to give frank advice on fertility, emphasising early referral, managing health, reducing stress, and the impact of female age. She stresses that women need full information to make informed choices, even when the news about subfertility is difficult...
The French government is sending a letter to all 29-year-olds in the country encouraging them to think about when they will have children...
Kayleen Devlin investigates the fertility supplement industry, examining claims made online and the limited scientific evidence behind them...
In Ukraine and Israel, war has turned posthumous reproduction into a legal and moral dilemma – one the law is still struggling to resolve...
This event from PET brought together clinical, social and lived perspectives on egg donation: exploring the needs and interests of donors, recipients, and donor-conceived people alike...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a fertility clinic's advertisements promoting egg donation 'trivialised the decision to donate eggs'...
A novel artificial intelligence tool has been developed to predict the molecular and regulatory effects of genetic variants relevant to health and disease...
Variants in maternal genes that increase the risk of aneuploidy have been identified...
A couple is suing a Florida fertility clinic after discovering their baby born following IVF was not genetically related to either of them...
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