TV Review: Swipe Right for Sperm
BBC Wales investigates the rise in people turning to social media to find sperm donors, the men behind the accounts, and the risks associated with the practice…
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Sperm cell
A mature male reproductive cell, which contains half the genetic information needed to make a new human.
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Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
The Dutch Embryo Act at a crossroads
The Dutch Embryo Act has governed the handling of oocytes, sperm cells and embryos since 2002. However, the rapid emergence of stem-cell-based embryo models and scientific interest in early human development are now driving debate around multiple provisions of the Act...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Human sperm precursors grown from stem cells in lab
Early sperm cell precursors were obtained from human non-reproductive cells reprogrammed and then housed within a mouse system...
Surrogacy sperm mix-up means intended parents must adopt twins
A UK-based couple who discovered that an overseas fertility clinic had used donor sperm instead of the intended father's must adopt twins born via surrogacy...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Air pollution may impact male fertility through epigenetic changes
News from ESHRE – air pollution is associated with epigenetic changes in sperm DNA…
Women over 49 have lower chance of live birth, even with donor eggs
News from ESHRE – uterine ageing affects the chances of pregnancy independently of egg quality…
Why we published the 'Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing' report
Professor Karen Sermon and Sarah Norcross explain why ESHRE and PET have collaborated to publish the wide-ranging report 'Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe'...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
Base editing reveals gene essential for human embryo formation
Using base editing, a highly precise method of genome editing, scientists have investigated the role of the NANOG gene in human embryos for the first time with this approach...