A new register for gamete donors and donor offspring has been launched in New Zealand. The register will enable people conceived through the use of donor sperm, eggs or embryos to have the chance to find out about their genetic origins. The Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) register was set...
A new study has shown that only a small percentage of sperm banks in the UK comply with recommendations on sperm testing set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) six years ago. WHO laid down rigorous recommendations for sperm morphology assessment, the results of which can be used to predict...
A study by researchers at University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, have found that stress and anxiety do not affect the chances of a woman getting pregnant while receiving fertility treatment. Out of 166 women who answered the initial questionnaire, 139 women had embryos available for transfer during the study. Fifty-eight...
A Dutch television station may begin a series of reality TV programmes called 'I want your child... and nothing else!' in which a woman searches for a man to donate sperm so that she can have a child. The pilot programme needs to 'win' a viewers' vote after five different...
A fault in a gene that plays a major role in the growth of the body's vascular system may be involved in Alzheimer's disease. This error causes cells to be unable to form a blood supply system and die, supporting a belief that Alzheimer's is a neurovascular disease. Researchers at...
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Why aren't we following WHO sperm guidelines?
by Dr Kate Whittington
Given the ongoing concerns about the apparent decline in male fertility over the last 50 years, one might be forgiven for thinking that the examination of human semen in the laboratory was now an exact science. This examination is a crucial part of the initial assessment of men reporting fertility...
What is a father?
by Professor Heather Draper and 1 others
The recent finding by a research team at Liverpool John Moores University, that one in 25 men may be raising children to whom they are not genetically related, has given rise to number of newspaper articles claiming 'One in 25 fathers 'not the daddy''. It might be argued that a...