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| Gene responsible for the urge to urinate identified |
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| 26 October 2020 - by Emma Lamb |
| Scientists have identified the gene that senses pressure in the bladder and plays a key part in signalling the need to urinate... [Read More] |
| Higher IVF success rates at clinics reporting more data |
| 26 October 2020 - by Bernie Owusu-Yaw |
| Success rates for IVF are higher at clinics that shared more information than required by government regulators, researchers at the University of Colorado have reported... [Read More] |
| Organoids indicate that SARS-CoV-2 damages the brain barrier |
| 26 October 2020 - by Dr Melanie Krause |
| SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, can disrupt the blood-brain barrier in organoids and damage cells in the choroid plexus, which may lead to long-term neurological complications... [Read More] |
| Age-Old Question: Exploring Fertility and Ageing |
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| 26 October 2020 - by Annabel Slater |
| 'Age and fertility - a topic that never gets old', said Sarah Norcross, excusing herself for the pun, as host at the latest PET event... [Read More] |
| How Old Is Too Old to Be a Parent? |
| 26 October 2020 - by Dr Yvonne Collins |
| Fertility and ageing were the focus of the second instalment of a two-part event held online by the Progress Educational Trust... [Read More] |
| It's time to remove the ten-year limit on social egg freezing |
| 26 October 2020 - by Dr John B Appleby |
| The UK's current Human Fertilisation and Embryology Acts allows human eggs frozen for social reasons to be stored for a maximum of ten years. There are important arguments against this current limit... [Read More] |
| Event Review: Egg freezing – what's the deal with fertility preservation? |
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| 26 October 2020 - by Susan Tranfield-Thomas |
| Billed as a 'forum for civilized disagreement', this hour-long webinar offers an opportunity to understand what egg freezing is, how and why it is accessed and what its long term implications are for the women who use it... [Read More] |
| Podcast Review: Freezing time |
| 26 October 2020 - by Ëlo Luik |
| Freezing Time is a new podcast series that follows writer Sophia Money-Coutts on her journey to freeze her eggs... [Read More] |
| Podcast Review: Some Families – We're both the other daddy |
| 19 October 2020 - by Javier Bautista |
| Surrogacy has given queer couples the opportunity to have a biological child, expanding ideas about the paths to parenthood... [Read More] |