One in five women conceive naturally after having IVF baby
The likelihood of becoming pregnant naturally after having a baby via IVF could be around 20 percent, a review has found...
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Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Children in remission in base-editing gene therapy trial for aggressive leukaemia
Remission has been seen in patients with treatment-resistant leukaemia in the world's first phase 1 clinical trial for 'base-editing' therapy...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
HFEA reports increase in fertility treatment and egg freezing
More people than ever are accessing fertility treatment in the UK, according to a new report by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Heartbeat and blood reportedly observed in human stem-cell-based embryo model
Scientists have reportedly created an embryo model from human stem cells with a heartbeat and traces of blood; features that typically appear in an embryo proper during the third or fourth week of pregnancy...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Prison sentence for surgeon who transplanted experimental tracheas
A Swedish court has found a doctor, whose patients died after experimental stem cell-containing tracheas were transplanted, guilty of gross assault and sentenced him to two-and-a-half years in prison...
Live birth rate the same for embryos transferred on day three or five
There is no difference in the live birth rate when embryos are transferred on day five or day three, a multi-centre study in the Netherlands has shown...
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Podcast Review: BBC Inside Science – 70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's structure
On the 70th anniversary of the publication of the seminal papers detailing the DNA double helix, we have new insight into the discovery of DNA's structure. Three experts are interviewed in this BBC Inside Science podcast...
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More patients accessing IVF, but fewer receiving NHS funding
by Julia Chain
Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Julia Chain, explains that more people than ever before are accessing fertility services in the UK – and more people than ever before are paying for it...
The relationship between solo parents and fertility clinics
by Dr Grace Halden
Dr Grace Halden asks how medicine and patient communities can work together to better ensure differentiated care, using the example of solo motherhood via gamete donation...
PET Podcast: Counselling and Assisted Reproduction – When, Why and by Whom Should It Be Offered?
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the ninth episode of its podcast, PET looks at different types of counselling that are sought, offered, recommended or required in relation to assisted conception, with speakers Alison McTavish, Angela Park, Lee Noquet and Professor Jacky Boivin...