Man receives transplant of his frozen prepubescent sperm-producing stem cells
A 26-year-old male cancer survivor received a transplant of his frozen prepubescent sperm-producing stem cells...
News
US government cuts key fertility treatment monitoring team
The assisted reproductive technology surveillance team at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has been disbanded...
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.
DNA test reveals babies swapped at birth in Peru
A DNA test to confirm paternity and claim child support, led a mother in rural Peru to discover the child she had raised for six years was not biologically hers, or her ex-partner's...
Irish broadcaster refused entry to EU with baby born via surrogacy
Darragh and Aoife McCullough were refused entry into the EU, after travelling to Northern Cyprus to pick up their baby born via surrogacy...
Retinal cells discovered that could repair vision loss
Researchers have identified a previously unreported population of human stem-like cells capable of regenerating retinal tissue and potentially promoting vision recovery...
Reviews
Radio Review: The Body Politic – Surrogacy
This episode tackles surrogacy in the UK and involved a variety of interest-holders, including intended parents, a surrogate, and two critics of the practice...
Comment
23andMe: a salutary tale
by Dr Pete Mills
'Established in 2007, in a gale of publicity, 23andMe benefitted from the valetudinarian personal genetic healthcare imaginary that appeared in the wake of the Human Genome Project,' writes Dr Pete Mills, as he documents the rise and fall of 23andMe...
What can the exposome tell us about ageing and mortality?
by Professor Kevin McConway
Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, comments on the recent findings published in Nature Medicine aiming to quantify the contributions of genetics and environmental factors in ageing and mortality...
Remembering Viscount Janric Craigavon
by Ann Furedi
Janric Craig, third Viscount Craigavon, died on 31 March 2025. He was a founding trustee of the Progress Educational Trust and a committed trustee of the Birth Control Trust. Ann Furedi pays tribute...