Latin for 'within the glass'. Refers to experiments performed in a controlled environment like a test tube or culture media, rather than inside a living organism or cells.
Marta Górna and Maciej Śmiechowski discuss mandatory donation requirements for unused embryos in Poland...
New possibilities for culturing human eggs and sperm in the laboratory have led the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to consider whether the law in this area should be reviewed...
The first live human birth using a novel technology that uses induced pluripotent stem cells to support egg maturation outside the body has been reported...
A molecule that can be used to enhance CRISPR genome editing also causes unintended destruction of large sections of the genome in human cells...
The story of IVF, from its early years in the 1960s to the birth in 1978 of Louise Brown, is depicted in this biographical drama, reviewed by former IVF patient Susan Tranfield-Thomas...
Dr Roger Gosden comments from the USA on the new Code of Practice for the Generation and Use of Human Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models...
PET and Cambridge Reproduction have jointly published a new Code of Practice for the Generation and Use of Human Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models. Members of the Working Group that drafted the Code reflect on its significance...
The latest set of bills surrounding IVF, and their failure to pass into law, represents the latest political dance over reproductive rights in the USA...
A fictionalised account of the true story of the events that led to the birth of the first IVF baby. Based on research and interviews over many years with embryologists and fertility doctors, as well as those whose lives were affected by and enabled by those events...
Children conceived from frozen embryos may have an increased likelihood of developing leukaemia, recent research suggests...
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