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World-first IVF trial reduces risk of babies inheriting diseases
AFP, Published on 17/07/2025
» PARIS - Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday.
Australian IVF clinic admits embryo mix-up
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» SYDNEY - An Australian IVF clinic has admitted a mix-up led to a mother giving birth to someone else's baby.
Israel attack on Gaza IVF clinic a 'genocidal act': UN probe
AFP, Published on 13/03/2025
» GENEVA - A United Nations investigation concluded Thursday that Israel carried out "genocidal acts" in Gaza through the destruction of its main IVF clinic, maternity facilities and other reproductive healthcare facilities.
New embryo models offer hope for research on miscarriages, birth defects
AFP, Published on 18/03/2021
» TOKYO - Scientists have generated early-stage human embryo models that could help shed light on the "black box" of initial human development stages and improve research on pregnancy loss and birth defects.
Russia funds IVF baby boom to battle population slump
AFP, Published on 30/01/2020
» BALASHIKHA (RUSSIA) - For three years, Valeriya Pashko has been trying to get pregnant. Now her last hope is IVF, provided free by Russia's health service as authorities try to avert a new drop in the birthrate.
China's single women seek sperm donors overseas
AFP, Published on 06/12/2019
» BEIJING: Looking at page after page of childhood photos, Xiaogunzhu was drawn to an image of a French-Irish boy with smiling dark blue eyes.
French to protest pro-IVF law for single women, lesbians
AFP, Published on 06/10/2019
» PARIS - Thousands of people prepared to descend on Paris on Sunday to protest a government plan to let single women and lesbians become pregnant with fertility treatments, the first major social reform since France legalised gay marriage in 2013.
Scientists try to stave off northern white rhino extinction
AFP, Published on 23/08/2019
» OL PEJETA, Kenya: Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said in Kenya on Friday.
Scientists harvest eggs from near-extinct rhino
AFP, Published on 23/08/2019
» OL PEJETA, Kenya: Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said in Kenya on Friday.
Dutch doctor 'fathered 49 children' in IVF scandal
AFP, Published on 12/04/2019
» THE HAGUE - A deceased Dutch doctor mired in a fertility scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through IVF at his now-closed clinic said Friday.