Netflix sued for disclosing identities of donor-conceived people
Netflix is being sued in federal court over the disclosure of three women's donor-conceived status in the 2022 documentary 'Our Father'...
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
AlphaFold used to show how vertebrate sperm and egg join
The highly conserved nature of the proteins that allow sperm and egg binding has been identified using artificial intelligence...
AI technology checks live sperm quality in seconds
New AI technology could improve the speed and accuracy of live sperm analysis, assisting infertility diagnosis and selection of sperm for ICSI...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Wildfire smoke may affect IVF
Poor air quality caused by wildfires may affect treatment outcomes in patients undergoing IVF...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
New Italian guidelines allow single women to transfer embryos… but only following a heterosexual relationship
Italy's fertility laws have become less restrictive, writes Dr Giulia Zanini, but still promote the myth of the heterosexual nuclear family...
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.
Embryo demonstrates a bias at the two-cell stage
When human embryos consist of only two cells, the cells are already biased towards contributing to either the placenta or the embryo, scientists suggest...
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.
Rare opportunity to study post-implantation human embryo
A new dataset, combining information on cell position and gene expression from an early human embryo, has been made available as a reference for scientists investigating human development...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Mechanism egg uses to block penetration by second sperm discovered
Structural changes in a specific protein triggers egg coat hardening after fertilisation, research shows...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Supercomputer used to study fertilisation
Computational modelling has been used to describe the molecular interactions occurring at the exact moment of fertilisation, shedding light on a range of unanswered questions in fertility research...
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.
Public open to doubling of 14-day limit on embryo research
A new dialogue report shows backing from members of the public for the extension of the 14-day limit on human embryo research...
