The form of cell division by which egg and sperm cells are formed. Unlike normal cell division (mitosis), the number of chromosomes in the resulting cells is half that in the original cells.
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...
Premature ovarian insufficiency is a relatively common cause of female infertility, leading to a menopause-like state before age 40. Dr Elena Tucker and Professor Andew Sinclair from the Unversity of Melbourne, Australia, explain the advances in understanding the genomic component of this condition...
Egg cells are kept in a form of stasis from when they are first formed in the fetus until they mature in adulthood, by a protein which regulates transcription, a new study in mice has shown...
Variants in three genes have been linked to an increased risk of a woman creating aneuploid embryos while undergoing IVF and used to create a risk score using machine learning...
A recent large randomised trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine is receiving significant attention with clinicians who are critical of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) claiming it provides evidence that PGT-A does not improve IVF outcomes and should not be used outside of research settings…
What does it take to make a family when natural conception is difficult or even impossible?..
Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, invited the audience of the event to consider where assisted reproductive technologies stood 55 years ago...
Researchers in Japan have successfully demonstrated the development of functional sperm cells that developed into fertile offspring from pluripotent embryonic stem cells, in mice...
BRCA2 mutations may be implicated in infertility, as well as increasing cancer risk, according to new research...
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