A lawsuit over a Canadian fertility doctor, who used his own sperm to impregnate patients has reached a settlement of £13 million Canadian dollars....
Two rival biotechnology companies have settled a long-running patent dispute...
A mutated protein associated with Alzheimer's disease may trigger the death of brain cells known to be vulnerable in frontotemporal dementia...
A number of rare inherited genetic mutations have been identified in families with children diagnosed with autism...
A sequence of repetitive noncoding DNA that varies considerably in length between humans, has been shown to play a role in ageing and cancer...
Professor Richard Lewontin, renowned geneticist and evolutionary biologist, has died at the age of 92...
Written by Luke and Kelly Jackson, 'Two-Week Wait' is a story about IVF that anyone with experience of the treatment can identify with...
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Relationship breakdown during fertility treatment: What happens to my embryo?
by Sarah Wood-Heath
Since 1991, the number of IVF cycles has increased significantly with success rates also growing…