Sixty-two percent of private IVF patients paid 'more than they expected' for treatment, according to the first national patient survey by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
A new study into the experience of British families undertaking surrogacy arrangements has shed light on the reasons some seek a surrogate in the UK while others choose to go abroad.
The news broke on the 4 December 2018 that clinicians had achieved a successful pregnancy and live birth following a uterus transplant from a deceased donor. This has been heralded worldwide as groundbreaking for uterus transplantation, and gives credence to clinical trials persisting with deceased donation, despite previous attempts failing. The feasibility of the use of deceased donors for uterus transplants was looking uncertain, and so the demonstration of the proof of concept is welcomed.
January 2019 training batch schedule - 2nd - 17th January
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Articles Include:
Do immature and mature sibling oocytes recovered from stimulated cycles have the same reproductive potential?
L. Escrich, Y. Galiana, N. Grau, F. Insua, N. Soler, A. Pellicer, M.J. Escribá
The use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection is associated with a shift in the secondary sex ratio
Christoph Cirkel, Inke R. König, Askan Schultze-Mosgau, Elmar Beck, Kay Neumann, Georg Griesinger
This is the text of Sir James Munby's Keynote Presentation at the Progress Educational Trust's 2018 Annual Conference 'Make Do or Amend: Should We Update UK Fertility and Embryo Law?'.
OvaTrain Academy for IVF training was established in 2018 It is the first academy specialized in IVF training in Jordan. OvaTrain academy offers a training course (120 hours practical, 30 hours theoretical) certified by the Ministry of Higher Educations and Scientific research in Jordan, and it also offers Hands-On training courses for IVF laboratory professionals.
The University of Zurich in collaboration with AGROVET and Quartec GmbH is organizing between April and November 2019 4 times a full week of hands on training in the International Training Centre for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ITCART). The workshop is designed for young embryologists who want to acquire the basic techniques to be able to work independently in an ART laboratory.
Authorities in China are moving to suspend the research activities of the scientists who claim to have modified the genomes of twin girls with CRISPR/Cas9.
A new paper documents three unrelated families where paternal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is present in offspring.
