Announcement: 7th Annual Clinical Embryologist's Summit Conference - Madison, WI
7th Annual Clinical Embryologist's Summit Conference & Vitrification workshop-Madison, WI
Mark PD Dow, PhD, HCLD 21 March 2006
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News: Single embryo transfer more effective with blastocyst
Culturing embryos to the blastocyst stage in the laboratory could increase the success rate of IVF treatment involving the transfer of a single embryo.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 20 March 2006
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Article: Should women who do not seek fertility treatment provide egg cells for stem cell research?
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is reported to be considering allowing women to donate eggs specifically for cloning research.
Jan Deckers, Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, University of Newcastle 08 March 2006
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Article: Clinical concerns with the new Finnish fertility law
It has taken almost two decades to establish a legal basis for fertility treatment in Finland.
Merja Tuomi-Nikula, specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology 08 March 2006
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News: European court rules against Natallie Evans in frozen embryo case
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today issued its judgment in the case of Evans v the United Kingdom.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 08 March 2006
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News: European court to rule on frozen embryo case
Natallie Evans, a British woman seeking the right to be able to use her own frozen IVF embryos, will hear tomorrow if her claim has succeeded in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 08 March 2006
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News: Vatican conference opposes IVF
Pope Benedict XVI has told an international Catholic conference on the scientific and bioethical considerations of 'The Human Embryo Before Implantation', that IVF embryos have a right to life, even before implantation.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 08 March 2006
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News: Anonymity May Slip From Sperm Donors
Many children of sperm donors are now trying to find their fathers, men who were promised anonymity.
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TheWBALChannel.com 06 March 2006
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News: House votes to criminalize sale of human eggs
PHOENIX The Arizona House voted today to make it a crime to sell human eggs. Opponents said the bill backed by social conservatives would implement a double standard because it would subject the sale of a woman's human eggs to criminal penalties but not criminalize the sale of a man's sperm.
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KPHO Phoenix 03 March 2006
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News: Australia planning fertility ad campaign
The Fertility Society of Australia (FSA) is planning an advertising campaign warning of the factors that can affect fertility.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 03 March 2006
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News: Older women more likely to have twins
Dutch researchers have discovered why women are more likely to conceive non-identical twins as they get older. Their findings, published early online in the journal Human Reproduction, show that as women age, rising levels of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) can push their ovaries into 'overdrive'.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 03 March 2006
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Announcement: Serono Symposia International Spring 2006 events
The following are the list of Serono Symposia International Foundation Spring events for 2006.
Simon Basten 22 February 2006
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News: US study suggests little demand for social sex selection
A new study carried out at the University of Illinois in Chicago shows that most people would not choose the sex of their baby, if given the option.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 20 February 2006
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News: Fewer multiple births after IVF in Australia and New Zealand
A new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reveals that the number of babies born after fertility treatments such as IVF has almost tripled in the last ten years. An accompanying drop in the numbers of twins and triplets born after assisted conception has lead to fewer premature births, and fewer babies with a low birth weight being born.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 20 February 2006
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News: Research gives sperm a boost
Scientists in the US have discovered what gives sperm cells the burst of energy they need to be able to reach and penetrate an egg.
Dr. Kirsty Horey 14 February 2006
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News: Single embryo limit 'would halve pregnancy rate'
A new study on the effect of single embryo transfer (SET) on pregnancy rates has triggered further calls for the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to stick with its existing policy on this issue.
Dr. Kirsty Horey 14 February 2006
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News: Human Genetics Commission reports on reproductive and genetic technologies
The UK's Human Genetics Commission (HGC) has issued a report that says advances in the techniques that can be used by families at risk of passing on genetic diseases to their children are to be welcomed, but also need careful monitoring.
Dr. Kirsty Horey 14 February 2006
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News: New kit to test 'egg reserve' launched
A company in the UK has launched a new mail-order fertility test, which it says can help women to decide how long they can wait before having children.
Dr. Kirsty Horey 14 February 2006
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Announcement: The First International Workshop on: Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The First International Workshop on: Human Embryonic Stem Cells
July 25-27, 2006
Kamal Alizadeh 07 February 2006
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Announcement: Clinical Frontiers in Human Reproduction ? Models in Primate Research
This International Conference aims to review how nonhuman primates have been and can be used as research models for basic and clinical aspects of human reproduction and how they can be considered as a preclinical model for new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in reproductive medicine. This International Conference will also be a platform for young investigators/researchers to present the results of their research projects in an attractive and intellectually stimulating environment.
Simon Basten 30 January 2006
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News: Potential pesticide threat to male fertility
Scientists have found a link between a common pesticide and male infertility. The chemical, chlorpyrifos, which is permitted under EU regulations, is widely used in Britain in agriculture and was also, until recently, found in common insecticides for use in private gardens.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 26 January 2006
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News: Gene discovery increases understanding of embryo implantation
Scientists have identified a key gene involved in embryo implantation in mice. The gene makes a uterine protein known as C/EBPb, which is regulated by oestrogen and progesterone.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 26 January 2006
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Announcement: Summer Fellowship in Biology of Reproduction, Buenos Aires
Laboratory of Reproductive Biology and Special Studies
Center of Studies in Gynecology and Reproduction
Vanesa Rawe, PhD. 23 January 2006
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News: More IVF could be provided if only one embryo transferred
UK researchers say that an additional 10,000 cycles of IVF per year could be provided free on the National Health Service (NHS), if clinics took action to reduce the number of multiple births following IVF.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 19 January 2006
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News: Egg freezing set to become more common?
A UK fertility expert has said that within ten years, a significant proportion of young British women will be cryopreserving their eggs in order to stave off infertility while delaying motherhood.
Dr. Kirsty Horsey 19 January 2006
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