IVF News & Jobs

25 March 2019 by Bernie Owusu-Yaw

A healthy female monkey, called Grady, has been born using sperm isolated from transplanted testicular tissue, marking the first time a live primate has been produced using this technique.

25 March 2019 by Shaoni Bhattacharya

The DNA of sperm taken directly from the testicles of infertile men is as healthy as that of sperm ejaculated by fertile men, suggests a new study.

25 March 2019 by Hugo Wolfe

A Massachusetts woman is suing a hospital for storing her embryos for years without telling her.

25 March 2019 by Catherine Heffner

Stronger tails help human sperm in their race to fertilise eggs, mathematical modelling suggests.

25 March 2019 by Rachel Siden

Baroness Mary Warnock, a pioneer of embryology research ethics and a patron of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), has died at the age of 94.

25 March 2019 by Dr Sue Avery

It is November 2015, and the woman described by the Daily Mail as having 'a monstrous ego that has destroyed so much of our moral and social heritage', is sitting, small and twinkly-eyed, on the sofa in her south London home, with Sarah Norcross (PET director), Kirsty Horsey (PET adviser) and myself.

18 March 2019 by Martha Henriques

A group of women is bringing the UK's first legal challenge to the ten-year limit on preserving frozen eggs. The women had their eggs frozen nearly ten years ago and wish to continue to preserve them in order to start a family in the future. Lawyers representing the group have advised that the ten-year limit may breach their human right to a private and family life.

18 March 2019 by Bernie Owusu-Yaw

The average birth weight of babies conceived by IVF has increased by approximately 180 grams over a 25-year period, a UK study suggests.

18 March 2019 by Yvonne Collins

A survey by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has found that 44 percent of women aged 18-24 would consider freezing their eggs in the future.

18 March 2019 by Jakki Magowan

A group of international experts is calling for a moratorium on the clinical use of germline genome editing in humans. Led by Professor Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, 17 scientists and ethicists from seven countries made the call in the journal Nature.