Mother wanting to use deceased daughter's eggs gets permission to appeal
A woman who is in a legal bid to use her deceased daughter's eggs has been given permission to take her case to the Court of Appeal...
News
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Lab-made sperm used to breed healthy mice
Scientists in China have used stem cells to create rudimentary sperm that successfully fertilised mouse eggs to produce healthy offspring...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Embryo 'squishing' could improve IVF success rates
Researchers in the USA have shown that 'squishing' an egg within hours of fertilisation can indicate how healthy and viable it is...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Illumina sues UK startup over genome-sequencing patents
The California-based genome-sequencing company Illumina has accused UK rival Oxford Nanopore Technologies of violating its intellectual property rights...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Do mobile phones 'cook' sperm?
Certain aspects of mobile phone usage may be linked to abnormal sperm concentration, according to research...
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.
New law in Australian state ends donor anonymity
The Australian state of Victoria has passed a bill allowing all people conceived through egg or sperm donation to apply for identifying information about their biological parents...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Somerset cuts IVF funding to one cycle only
Somerset CCG has announced that its provision of NHS-funded IVF will be reduced from two cycles to one...
Image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics via Wikimedia Commons. Depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the centre cytosine.
Genetically identical twins born with different eye and skin colour
Two baby girls from County Durham are thought to be the first genetically identical twins in the UK to be born with different eye and skin colour...
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.
TV Review: Inside Out - Looking for a Baby Online
This programme looks at the 'darker side of sperm donation', outside the regulated world of fertility clinics, where some seedy business is taking place...
Comment
All donor-conceived people in Victoria now have the right to donor information
by Professor Sonia Allan and 1 others
The state parliament of Victoria in Australia has passed legislation that will enable all donor-conceived people to receive identifying information about their sperm, oocyte, or embryo donor(s). The model adopted is a world first in its application to donor conception...
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