Children born to parents with fertility problems are more likely to develop psychiatric disorders, a large-scale population study suggests....
Healthy mice have been born using sperm grown in the lab from a sample of cryopreserved testicular tissue...
Nature has retracted two papers published in January on the creation of so-called 'STAP' cells, after all co-authors agreed to the retractions....
In one of the first experiments to grow tissue from adult stem cells, scientists have grown corneas in the lab...
France will no longer deny citizenship to children born via surrogates to French parents overseas, Minister for Families Laurence Rossignol confirmed, after a decision at the European Court of Human Rights...
Tibetan people inherited a genetic variant from an extinct subspecies of humans that helps them survive on the 'roof of the world'...
Using donated eggs in IVF increases the risk of complications, according to a study of 580 IVF patients in France.
A doctor by training and a researcher at the forefront of fertility studies, Professor Lord Robert Winston, pioneer in the field of IVF and PGD, discusses the implications of new techniques for genetically modifying embryos in the Physiological Society's 2014 annual public lecture...
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Breast Cancer Risk: Facts, Fictions and the Future
by Dr Nicola Davis
The Progress Educational Trust's enlightening series of events on breast cancer came to a close on Thursday with 'Breast cancer risk: Facts, fiction and the future'....
The STAP cell controversy: post factum
by Professor Dusko Ilic
Two papers published back to back in Nature took our breath away earlier this year, but the research community soon became sceptical and the published work was subjected to unprecedented scrutiny. How is it possible that something like this could happen?...