FILM: Robert Edwards at 100 – Part 3
PET presents a series of talks celebrating the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards. This third talk is by Grace MacDonald, the second woman ever to have a child following IVF...
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
mRNA treatment helps mice with azoospermia to regain fertility
A new mRNA-based therapy has restored fertility in mice that were unable to produce sperm...
FILM: Robert Edwards at 100 – Part 2
PET presents a series of talks celebrating the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards. This second talk is by Edwards' colleague, Professor Barry Bavister...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Book Review: Taming Egg Donors – The egg donation reproductive market in Spain
In this book, social anthropologist Dr Anna Molas presents her findings on egg donors in Spain, one of the most prominent fertility markets in the world...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
How mouse sperm springs into action
Enzymes help sperm boost energy production at the right time to swim towards and fertilise an egg, according to new research...
FILM: Robert Edwards at 100 – Part 1
PET presents a series of talks celebrating the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards. This first talk is by Edwards' daughter, Dr Jenny Joy...
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.
Harmful genetic mutations accumulate during sperm production in older men
Genetic mutations resulting in serious diseases have been found to proliferate in the sperm cells of ageing men...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Decline of female fertility with age linked to supportive tissues in ovary
Changes in ovarian tissue, not just egg quantity and quality, may play a role in the decline of female fertility with age, new research suggests...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Obituary: Raul Margara
Stuart Lavery and Andrew Horne bid a fond farewell to their colleage and friend, who was central to setting up one of the first NHS IVF clinics...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Eggs created from human skin cells and then fertilised
Egg cells have been created from human skin cell DNA, which have then been fertilised with sperm to create embryos...