US scientists push for mitochondrial donation legalisation
Scientists and patient advocates are lobbying US lawmakers to allow mitochondrial donation to be used to help avoid severe mitochondrial disease...
Scientists and patient advocates are lobbying US lawmakers to allow mitochondrial donation to be used to help avoid severe mitochondrial disease...
A baby conceived via IVF using genetic information from three people has been born to a mother not affected by mitochondrial disease...
by Hugo Wolfe
Italy violated a woman's right to health after the country's fertility laws led to a forced pregnancy, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reported on Wednesday...
The Progress Educational Trust (PET) symposium event 'Revolutionising Reproduction: The Future of Fertility Treatment' took place at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the 19th March 2019...
Selecting sperm with greater stamina results in offspring that are healthier and live longer, according to a recent study in zebrafish...
'Every time somebody decides to have a baby, they're engaging in a game of Russian roulette,' argues Professor Mary Herbert, a reproductive biologist at the University of Newcastle. Around 60-70 percent of fertilised eggs will never make it to pregnancy
Researchers have bred mouse pups with genetic material from two male, or two female parents...
Pre-implantation genetic testing of embryos does not improve IVF birth rates in older women, found the largest study of its kind yet...
A woman with two wombs has given birth to twins in an event described as a one in 500 million pregnancy...
by Jen Willows
The strict laws on assisted reproduction in Malta are set to be liberalised in a bill put forward in Parliament this month, although embryo destruction will remain illegal...
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