Discrepancies between public opinion and real-world access to fertility services in the UK have been highlighted by a fertility and genomics survey commissioned by the Progress Education Trust...
Three quarters (75 percent) of sperm used in the UK is imported from overseas, despite British men's apparent willingness to donate...
North East London Clinical Commissioning Group is consulting on introducing a single fertility policy that will provide eligible patients three rounds of NHS-funded IVF, increasing access in some areas...
Ovarian ageing in mice has been shown to be reversible using compounds that target fibrosis and promote mitochondrial health..
A gene involved in the processing of lipids in the brain, has been found to be associated with motor neurone diseases (MNDs), a group of hereditary, neurodegenerative conditions...
A UK widower has won the legal right to use the last remaining embryo that he made with his late wife in a landmark legal case...
Women diagnosed with infertility have a 14 percent higher long-term risk of non-fatal stroke, according to a large, global study...
A recent episode of Genetics Unzipped 'Have a heart: the science of xenotransplantation' talked about the process of transplanting organs from animals into human bodies...
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Thirty years of PET: our 'Fertility, Genomics and Embryo Research' report
by Sarah Norcross
PET turns 30 this year, but our story goes back further than that – at least as far back as the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the world's first IVF baby...
Children's rights and donor conception: What next?
by Dr Katherine Wade
There have been recent reports that the UK's assisted reproduction regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is considering changing the law surrounding donor anonymity, due to the growing use of consumer genetic testing...