Multi-layered stomach organoids created from human stem cells
For the first time, scientists have engineered a miniature stomach, which displays cellular and functional complexity similar to its human counterpart...
For the first time, scientists have engineered a miniature stomach, which displays cellular and functional complexity similar to its human counterpart...
Scientists have created a 'blastoid' model of the human embryo at early-stages that can successfully attach to uterine cells in vitro, mimicking the implantation of an embryo in the mother's uterus...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has detailed potential updates to current laws regarding fertility treatment practices in the UK, including improved patient protection...
by Abbie Harper
Living robots, made of frogs' stem cells, can reproduce by a form of replication unseen in plants or animals...
A bill permitting mitochondrial donation has been passed by the Australian House of Representatives...
Researchers have identified a molecule that could be used as a drug to prevent metastasis, a process by which cancer can spread and cause death...
What makes someone family?' asked host Paris Lees, as I listened to an episode of the Flipside, a collection of podcasts that combine social sciences and storytelling to inform debate on two opposing stories...
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Using compulsory pension funds for social egg freezing – a viewpoint from Singapore
by Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin
Many countries worldwide implement compulsory pension funds and medical savings schemes that are contributed to by both employees and employers. In some countries, employees are allowed to withdraw from such funds to pay for fertility treatments, such as IVF…
PGT-A in young, good prognosis populations
by Dr Eric J Forman
A recent large randomised trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine is receiving significant attention with clinicians who are critical of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) claiming it provides evidence that PGT-A does not improve IVF outcomes and should not be used outside of research settings…
Empowerment, privacy and the rise of FemTech
by Dr Avi Lerner and 1 others
In harmony with great scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs have transformed the fields of genetics and fertility treatments. Advances in technology provide society with opportunities and risks, and FemTech is no different...