The Men's Health Strategy states that in 30 percent of couples experiencing infertility, factors involving the male partner are the primary cause...
Infection by a common virus during childhood is associated with the development of bladder cancer later in life...
A seventh person appears to have been cured of HIV due to a blood stem cell transplant...
Disruption to a gene causes malformations to the development of sperm tails, resulting in mice producing no functional sperm...
Over 31,000 new transcripts found in blood cells from non-European populations are absent from current human gene reference maps...
A sperm bank in Denmark requires its sperm donors to have an IQ of at least 85 and a police clearance certificate demonstrating no criminal record...
Swallows offers an imperfect portrayal of surrogacy but a thoughtful take on class, power imbalance and gender roles, according to BioNews editor Jen Willows...
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The clinical applicability of polygenic scores in PGT
by Professor Angus Clarke
Following reports that UK patients are seeking PGT-P – a form of preimplantation genetic testing that involves polygenic scores – Professor Angus Clarke discusses problems with polygenic scores in general, and with PGT-P in particular...
Australia should (carefully) permit compensation for donors of surplus frozen eggs
by Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin
Can the donation of unused frozen eggs help overcome the shortage of donor eggs in Australia, asks Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin...
FILM: Robert Edwards at 100 – Part 8
by Professor Nick Hopwood
PET presents a series of talks celebrating the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards. This eighth talk is by Nick Hopwood, professor of history of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge...