The full or partial creation of gametes (egg or sperm cells) outside the body.
This often, but not always, means creating gametes from stem cells.
Dr Beatrice Costa explores Lancaster University's public lecture Sex, Science and Stem Cells, examining how advances in stem cell research, IVG and embryo models are reshaping the future of human reproduction and raising important ethical and policy questions...
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 third session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Law?', examined human embryos from a legal perspective...
In this dystopian novel, eggs or sperm can be created from any person's cells, resulting in celebrities facing the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived...
A new method of creating eggs from skin cells has been demonstrated in mice, and could have potential for treating infertility in future...
Organoids grown from testicular cells of young mice have shown characteristics of normal mouse testes and have potential to produce sperm...
The fertility sector has developed rapidly in the 50 years since its inception, yet old-fashioned mores and bureaucracy govern many patients' access and experience, argues Kevin McEleny…
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