Singaporean women should think twice before freezing their eggs
The Singapore government recently announced that the age limit for egg freezing would be extended from 35 to 37 years of age. An article in...
China could permit IVF for single women
The Chinese government is pondering whether to permit single women to access egg freezing and IVF in an effort to put a brake on the...
Risky and unnecessary embryo genetic testing (PGT-A) in Malaysia is driven by culture
Currently in Malaysia, many fertility clinics strongly encourage and even push their patients to do highly expensive preimplantation genetic testing of their IVF embryos, technically...
WHO backs IVF industry’s call for government funding for infertility
Large numbers of people are affected by infertility in their lifetime, according to a new report published the World Health Organization. Around 17.5% of the...
Asia-Pacific IVF market could reach US$46 billion by 2031
According to a market survey by Allied Market Research, IVF is booming in the Asia-Pacific region. The market size was about $9.3 billion in 2021...
Should slavery be invoked in debates about embryos?
A Virginia judge has referred to an 1849 statute about ownership of slaves in his deliberations about the fate of frozen embryos. Fairfax County Circuit...
Prince Harry on being a ‘saviour sibling’
The idea of a “saviour sibling” was a popular theme in the media a while ago. The idea was that after a couple had a...
Indian IVF and surrogacy clinics rush to register
India is attempting to regulate its chaotic IVF sector. The milestone Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 set down that reproductive services like IVF, surrogacy,...
Israeli IVF clinic delivers the wrong baby
After undergoing IVF an Israeli woman has given birth to a child which is not biologically related to her or to her husband. She was...
Healthy young Indian egg donor dies of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
A healthy 23-year-old woman has died in India while her eggs were being extracted for use in IVF. An autopsy revealed that the death was...
Nature sceptical of polygenic embryo tests
The world’s leading science journal, Nature, is taking a very dim view of genetic tests which promise consumers a reduced risk of certain diseases if...
Possible cancer risk with frozen IVF embryos
A study of more than 8 million children in Nordic countries suggests that children who begin life as frozen embryos (FET) may have a higher...