A mature male reproductive cell, which contains half the genetic information needed to make a new human.
Dr Kay Elder remembers her work with Dr Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe, and the early challenges and successes of IVF...
In a world first, doctors in Belgium have transplanted testicular tissue into an adult man after it was frozen prior to chemotherapy 16 years ago when he was a child...
Apricity Fertility, a UK-based 'virtual' fertility clinic, ceased all operations on 1 January 2025...
Two people conceived at IVF pioneer Dr Patrick Steptoe's clinic in the 1970s have discovered that a laboratory scientist is their biological father...
'Families are told your son is dead but we can preserve his sperm'. Zeenat Beebeejaun, PhD student at the University of Birmingham Dubai, reviews a news podcast by the Irish Times exploring how Israeli grandparents are creating grandchildren from their dead sons' sperm...
The fourth session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?', tackled ethical aspects of the status of the human embryo...
A New Zealand man who circumvented strict surrogacy laws in Thailand to father a child has been granted permission to adopt his son...
Stem-cell-based embryo models should be distinguished explicitly from human embryos in UK law, according to a UK bioethics organisation...
An internal investigation into the record-keeping of the now-closed sperm donor bank at Leiden University Medical Centre revealed that over 400 donor-conceived children have more than 25 half-siblings…
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