A Fertility Network UK survey of 1279 fertility patients has revealed the impact of treatment on mental health, finances, relationships and career...
Myc, a transcription factor known to drive many cancers in humans, has been successfully and safely inhibited for the first time by researchers in Barcelona, Spain...
BMI is not associated with pregnancy rates following transfer of non-aneuploid frozen embryos, according to research presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's 2022 scientific congress...
CRISPR-based genome editing has been used to make an 'off-the-shelf' cellular therapy for children with treatment-resistant leukaemia, marking an important step forward in the development of 'universal' genetically-altered treatments...
A family court in Israel has given a couple legal custody of a newborn infant, despite neither being genetically related to the child...
Three million people in England are being invited by letter to join the Our Future Health study, which will explore potential uses of genetic risk scores by analysing genomic data and NHS health records...
A smart phone carrying out a voice call over WiFi, has been shown to negatively affect sperm motility and viability in semen in the laboratory...
An Irish couple whose triplets were born prematurely in Kenya, has been unable to bring them home due to unpaid medical bills...
The If These Ovaries Could Talk podcast series explores the experiences of non-traditional families. The episode Your Uterus, Your Choice explored the experiences of a same-sex couple undergoing fertility treatment with donor sperm...
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New fatwa in Malaysia bans social egg freezing for single Muslim women
by Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin and 1 others
Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin and Dr Che Anuar Bin Che Mohamad explain the recently issued fatwa in Malaysia, which explicitly bans elective egg freezing for fertility preservation by single Muslim women before marriage...