Dr Beverly Searle, CEO of charity Unique, to retire
Dr Beverly Searle, CEO of Unique, is retiring at the end of August, marking the end of more than 30 years of service to the charity for people with rare chromosomal conditions...
News
Kerala rules on donor conception birth certificate requirement
Requiring a sperm donor's name to be recorded on children's birth certificates may breach privacy laws, according to the High Court of Kerala in India...
Men over 50 less likely to have successful fertility treatment
The chance of live birth following assisted reproduction is significantly reduced when the prospective father is over the age of 50, a recent study has revealed…
mRNA HIV vaccine trial to start
Moderna has started a trial for its HIV vaccine, based on mRNA technology...
BRCA2 DNA repair errors implicated in infertility
BRCA2 mutations may be implicated in infertility, as well as increasing cancer risk, according to new research...
Genetic variants that cause hypertension in pregnancy identified
An international study has identified a unique pair of gene variants that can cause the sudden onset of high blood pressure in pregnant women...
Lab-grown brain organoids develop primitive eyes
Brain organoids grown in the lab can develop primitive eyes called optic cups, containing key cell types that are able to respond to light...
Reviews
Book Review: (M)otherhood – On the choices of being a woman
(M)otherhood is a frank, moving account of what it means to be a woman in a society that remains conflicted by fertility and female identity...
Comment
Improving sperm cell analysis: a new WHO manual
by Ana Vasconcelos and 1 others
The wait is over…. The new WHO Semen Analysis manual – version six – is now live!...