Fertility rate halves across world
The number of children born per woman has halved globally since 1950, according to a study published by the Lancet...
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Long life has little to do with genetics
Your genetics may have less impact on how long you will live than previously thought, according to research using family trees consisting of more than 400 million individuals...
Rising IVF success blamed for fall in England's adoption rates
Improvements in the success rates of IVF treatment have been cited as part of the reason fewer people are choosing to adopt children in the UK, despite the number of children currently in care reaching a record high...
First patient receives stem cell transplant in Parkinson's trial
A male patient in his fifties has received a stem cell injection into the brain in an early phase trial for Parkinson's disease...
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.
Cancer blood test detects tumours by size of DNA fragments
A test has been developed that can detect at least eight different types of cancer, by characterising the size of tumour DNA fragments in the blood...
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Film Review: Private Life (Netflix)
After watching the trailer for the 2018 Netflix film Private Life, I was expecting a dramatic, yet funny and heartfelt tale about a couple struggling to have a child via assisted reproduction, who eventually discover that the family around them is all the
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The worst five words you can say to a couple experiencing infertility
by Anya Sizer
'Why can't you just adopt?' It is a phrase that is repeatedly aimed at one of society's most isolated and misunderstood groups: those facing infertility. Time and again we hear those words, as though a magic formula has been found to sweep away years of t
In defence of the welfare of women
by Professor Geeta Nargund and 4 others
Over the last ten years, the International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR) has campaigned worldwide to put the welfare of women at the heart of fertility treatment...