RNA sequencing has been used for the characterisation of pathogens in human sperm, giving the potential to be used as a new diagnostic tool for infertility investigations...
Next-generation DNA sequencing is helping to rapidly identify and characterise the coronavirus at the centre of the recent outbreak...
Scientists from China and the USA have used non-human primate ovaries to improve understanding of why female fertility declines with age...
At least six women and their families are suing a doctor for negligence and fraud, after they discovered that he had used his own sperm in their fertility treatment...
A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan have carried out the first transplant using lab-grown heart muscle cells...
The US Food and Drug Administration has released seven new guidelines that will help scientists safely develop novel gene therapy products...
At 38 years of age, with four failed rounds of IVF behind her, Natasha wants to know why she can't find a non-white egg donor...
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FILM: Does Fertility Treatment Still Need to Be a Medical Secret? (Part 3)
by BioNews
The third in a series of films documenting a recent Progress Educational Trust/Scottish Government event on fertility and medical secrecy, featuring a presentation by Dr Jane Stewart of the British Fertility Society and the Newcastle Fertility Centre...
Is fertility law in Ireland set to change?
by Fiona Duffy
I reflect with sadness on the slow pace of progress in legislating for assisted human reproduction (AHR) in Ireland. This is all the more poignant when I read the good news coming from France and the recent Court decisions on the recognition of parentage for children born through surrogacy...
The aftermath of the He Jiankui fiasco: China's response
by Dr Patrick Foong
Dr He Jiankui, who claimed that the world's first babies had been born with edited genomes, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined for performing 'illegal medical practices'...