Announcement: CRi announces new Oosight? Imaging System
CRi announces the release of new and improved software for the Oosight? Imaging System, the next-generation of CRi?s own, original, industry-leading SpindleView? system.
Ross Nakatsuji 01 September 2006
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Announcement: Hands-On Vitrification Workshop
Irvine Scientific will be hosting a Hands-On Vitrification Workshop.
Kiersten Carlin 31 August 2006
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News: Fresh sperm sales banned in UK
The UK Government has announced that the sale of fresh sperm over the Internet is to be banned, following fears over the safety and suitability of the sperm, as raised in a consultation of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE)Act 1990.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 30 August 2006
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News: Baby girl born through IVF using 17-year-old sperm
A baby girl has been born using the sperm her father froze 17 years ago before battling against cancer.
Antony Blackburn-Starza 30 August 2006
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Article: Egg sharing and reimbursement of IVF
Egg sharing remains a highly controversial procedure. The discussion on whether or not egg sharing in return for a free or reduced IVF cycle constitutes a kind of payment has been going on since the very beginning of the practice.
Guido Pennings, Professor of Ethics and Bioethics 24 August 2006
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News: International Congress NORMAL COMPLEXITIES OF COMING INTO THE WORLD
announcement for the Congress
Valentina Minarelli 23 August 2006
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Announcement: Research Instruments launches new IVF thermometer droplet probe.
The IVF Thermometer from Research Instruments has been specially designed for IVF labs. The waterproof unit is calibrated for refrigerators,
incubators and heated stages.
W.R.Brown MBA 18 August 2006
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News: Woman dies after routine IVF treatment
A British woman who had undergone a standard IVF procedure at the Leicester Royal Infirmary has died unexpectedly while undergoing another medical procedure.
Laura Goodall 15 August 2006
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News: Payment for egg donation debate continues
A leading bioethicist, Dr Insoo Hyun of Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, US, has called for women to be paid to donate eggs for stem cell research on the same basis that research participants are compensated for taking part in other medical research.
Heidi Nicholl 15 August 2006
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News: NZ report recommends changes to PGD regulation
A new report on embryo testing by the New Zealand Law Foundation has identified some inconsistencies in the way the procedure is regulated.
Dr Jess Buxton 09 August 2006
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News: UK couple to move frozen embryos abroad
A UK couple from Greater Manchester, fighting to prevent their frozen embryos from being destroyed, have been given extra time to try find a clinic abroad to store them.
Letitia Hughes 04 August 2006
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News: Older fathers link to increased miscarriage risk
New research from US scientists, based at the Columbia University School of Public Health and the New York Psychiatric Institute, suggests that woman who become pregnant by older men are at greater risk of miscarriage. Results indicate that as the male partner ages there is a steady increase in rate of miscarriage.
Letitia Hughes 04 August 2006
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Announcement: ANDROLOGY WEEK
A weeklong programme on Andrology & Assisted Reproductive Technology comprising Symposia, Seminars and Workshops at Calcutta, India from 21-27th August 2006
Prof. A.K.Bhattacharyya, PhD, D.Sc 01 August 2006
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News: More UK sperm donors urgently needed
Thousands of women seeking fertility treatment face remaining childless because of an acute shortage of sperm donors in Britain, according to a report published yesterday in the Independent.
Letitia Hughes 31 July 2006
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News: 'Egg-sharing' for research given go ahead in UK
A controversial scheme to extend the practise of 'egg sharing' has been approved by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to provide greater numbers of eggs for embryonic stem (ES) cell research.
Heidi Nicholl 31 July 2006
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Announcement: Research Instruments unveil Particle Counter for IVF Labs
How Clean is Your Laboratory Air?
W.R.Brown MBA 28 July 2006
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News: Irish man gave no consent for ex-wife to use embryos
In a dispute between an Irish couple over the use of frozen embryos, created before they separated, a High Court judge has ruled that the man did not ever give consent for his estranged wife to use the embryos.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 25 July 2006
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News: Stem cell sperm success
Scientists have for the first time managed to create sperm from mouse stem cells capable of fertilising eggs and resulting in live births.
Heidi Nicholl 17 July 2006
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Article: How will artificial sperm success affect further research?
The success achieved by Professor Karim Nayernia et al in obtaining offspring from 'artificial sperm' has been widely reported over the past week.
Anna Smajdor, researcher in medical ethics at Imperial College, London 17 July 2006
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News: Electronic tags for IVF embryos
A trial is taking place to electronically tag IVF embryos to prevent mistakes in clinics such as implanting the wrong embryos or fertilising eggs with the wrong sperm.
Heidi Nicholl 17 July 2006
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News: Questions raised over IUI fertility technique
A technique commonly used to treat couples with unexplained fertility problems is ineffective for many of them, say Dutch researchers.
Dr Jess Buxton 17 July 2006
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News: UK fertility law to drop 'need for a father'; ban sex selection?
UK Health Minister Caroline Flint has told an evidence session of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (STC) that there is 'probably not a case' for maintaining the part of the law that says that clinics must take into account the potential child's 'need for a father' before providing fertility treatments.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 17 July 2006
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Announcement: Alpha Conference Lucerne 15-17 September 2006
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Marc Van den Bergh 11 July 2006
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News: Louise Brown, world's first IVF baby, to have child
Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is expecting her own child. Now aged 27, Louise was born after the first successful IVF treatment on 25 July 1978 - now she and her husband, Wesley Mullinder, are preparing for their first baby in January.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 11 July 2006
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News: UK's oldest IVF mother has baby
A 62-year old woman has become the UK's oldest woman to give birth to a child. Dr Patricia Rashbrook, who already has three children aged 18, 22 and 26, underwent IVF treatment using donor eggs in order to conceive her son, who was born by Caesarean section last week.
Dr Kirsty Horsey 11 July 2006
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