Mitochondrial transfer: first for fertility treatment, then for mitochondrial diseases
Australia recently passed legislation explicitly allowing mitochondrial donation...
Australia recently passed legislation explicitly allowing mitochondrial donation...
by Professor Adam Balen and 1 others
Recently the 'reality' television star Kourtney Kardashian claimed that the IVF treatment she received had 'put her into the menopause' in the trailer for a new series of 'Meet the Kardashians'...
A new study shows that embryos begin to show gene expression when they are just at the single-cell stage, right after fertilisation...
Research has shed light on how the chemical environment of the fallopian tubes can influence how mammalian sperm swim towards the egg...
A national audit has highlighted regional differences in IVF funding, set by local clinical commissioning groups...
What does it take to make a family when natural conception is difficult or even impossible?..
Our scientific understanding of early human embryogenesis is the product of costly trade-offs...
by Hannah Flynn
Researchers have discovered the earliest known effect of the Huntingtin gene variant which causes Huntington's disease...
The chance of live birth following assisted reproduction is significantly reduced when the prospective father is over the age of 50, a recent study has revealed…
by Dr Birgit Kvernflaten and 2 others
It is becoming clear that our gene functions are influenced by a variety of 'epigenetic' factors throughout our lives and even before we are conceived...
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