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…
An artificial intelligence model has been developed that is capable of decoding genomes and designing synthetic DNA, RNA and proteins...
Some patients of a Nashville, Tennessee, fertility clinic are still unable to access their frozen gametes, embryos and medical records, seven months after it closed, in April this year, media has reported...
Functional mouse induced pluripotent stem cells were generated using genes originating in an ancient unicellular organism and injected into a mouse embryo to create chimeric mice...
Common genetic variants, including some linked to risk of developing schizophrenia and depression in later life, are linked to the risk of rare neurodevelopmental conditions in children...
Two House Republicans voice opposition to the expansion of IVF funding for people in the military and their dependents...
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...
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Ten Years of Womb Transplants: What Have We Learned? What Does the Future Hold?
by Philippa Kemp
This PET event gathered together a range of speakers to celebrate and reflect after ten years from the first live birth following a human uterus transplant...
Forced hysterectomy or societal surrogacy – an ethical solution for falling birth rates?
by Professor Anna Smajdor
Falling birth rates are forcing politicians to confront the consequences of education and immigration policies over recent decades...
Non-judicious uptake of PGT-A in Malaysia is driven by sociocultural factors
by Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin
Associate professor of biomedical science at Peking University, China, Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin, discusses the rise in preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in Malaysia...