ICSI does not improve IVF outcomes for non-severe male factor infertility
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection offers no advantage over conventional IVF in cases where men don't have severe male-factor infertility, a study has shown...
News
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.
At least 85 mass sperm donors discovered in the Netherlands
A new national registry has revealed at least 85 very prolific sperm donors in the Netherlands so far...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
US fertility rate remains critically low
The number of births in the USA in 2024 increased by only one percent since the previous year, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
DNA organisation during first hours of embryo development mapped
Several epigenetic pathways have been found to play a role in the spatial organisation of DNA during early embryonic development in mice...
Reviews
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.
Book Review: Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law
Focusing on the law in England and Wales, Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis' first monograph makes a significant and comprehensive theoretical contribution regarding conceptual and legal understandings of gestation and pregnancy...
Comment
The chaotic landscape of surrogacy in Argentina
by Dr Paula Siverino Bavio
Application of Argentinian laws concerning surrogacy has recently changed following allegations of trafficking and exploitation, and created a chaotic situation for prospective parents...
Depopulation – a view from 1896
by Professor Rachel Bowlby
Professor Rachel Bowlby, author of a new book about the French novelist Émile Zola, discusses falling birthrates with a comparison from 1896...
PET Podcast: Is Fertility Treatment a Solution to Population Decline?
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 27th episode of its podcast, PET begins a two-part discussion of assisted conception in relation to falling birthrates, with Professor Geeta Nargund, Professor Bart Fauser, Dr Chris Skedgel and Dr Paul Morland...
FILM: 10 Years of Womb Transplants – What Have We Learned? What Does The Future Hold?
by BioNews
This film features the medical pioneers responsible for the world's first live birth following a uterus transplant (in 2014), and for the UK's first live birth following a uterus transplant (in 2025)...