Give up to get pregnant
Scientists at the Institute of Health Sciences at Oxford University, UK, have published findings that say that women who smoke impair their fertility. Their report, published in the Journal of Biosciences, states that women who do not give up smoking before they try to become pregnant take significantly longer to...
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Time to reconsider sex selection?
by Juliet Tizzard
Over the weekend, the UK media has run a number of stories about sex selection, which we cover in this week's BioNews. There's nothing new about sex selection: it's been possible to test embryos for sex for more than a decade, although it's never been legal to do so for...