IVF works more quickly than IUI for patients with unexplained infertility
IVF offers a faster route to parenthood than intrauterine insemination for couples with unexplained infertility, according to new research...
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Embryo
A stage of development which, in humans, lasts for eight weeks after the fertilised egg first starts to divide.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
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.
Book Review: The Second Creation – The age of biological control by the scientists who cloned Dolly
Dr Desislava Staneva reviews The Second Creation, exploring the science behind Dolly the sheep, the history of cloning and how genome editing has changed the field…
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
A tribute to Dr Marta Shahbazi (1985-2026)
The director and deputy director of PET pay tribute to Dr Marta Shahbazi – a prominent and inspiring figure in human embryo research, who was killed in last week's rail collision in Spain...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
When our embryos were labelled 'abnormal', we lost the right to choose
Fertility physician, clinical geneticist and bioethicist Dr Shizuko Takahashi questions why PGT-A is being used to limit – rather than inform – patient choices...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Genome editing reactivates zeta-globin gene in alpha-thalassaemia
Switching back on a gene that is normally silenced early in development has improved features of severe alpha-thalassaemia in mice and restored globin production in cells from patients...
'EmbryoGlue' did not improve pregnancy rates in two studies
New evidence suggests that a widely debated IVF add-on does not increase clinical pregnancy rates...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
To err is human: How human embryos rarely get it right
Dr Aleksandra Byrska explores why human embryos are prone to chromosomal errors and how these might affect IVF success...
Can AI predict miscarriage after IVF?
Artificial intelligence could help clinicians estimate the risk of miscarriage after IVF, using five measurements routinely collected during treatment...