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Written by Sophie Goodchild

No significant differences found in rates of embryos suitable for transfer and live birth rates between conventional IVF and ICSI in non-male factor cycles undergoing PGT-A....

5 Feb, 2024

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Annual Meeting

Results from small-scale study highlight potential – but not proven – risks of microplastics to fertility and reproductive health....

Written by Sophie Goodchild

8 Jul, 2025

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Written by Sophie Goodchild

Annual Meeting
Highlights are outlined at annual meeting from the first update since 2019....

8 Jul, 2025

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Written by Sophie Goodchild

Annual Meeting
New evidence presented at a session on mental health in fertility care shows women are especially vulnerable to depression after miscarriage....

8 Jul, 2025

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Written by Sophie Goodchild

Annual Meeting
A session on artificial intelligence (AI) highlighted how the technology is gradually changing approaches to reproductive care and optimising outcomes but validation is crucial. ...

8 Jul, 2025

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Annual Meeting Science

Interview with Heidi Mertes

5 Aug, 2024

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Interview with Rod Mitchell

Annual Meeting Science
More than 3,000 boys around the world have had testicular tissue cryopreserved to protect their fertility.  Professor Rod Mitchell, of the University of Edinburgh, spoke to Fiona MacRae about how close we are to using that tissue to allow them to father ...

5 Aug, 2024

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Interview with Agnès Arbat

Annual Meeting Science
Dr Agnès Arbat, of Oxolife, a biotech that has developed an oral non-hormonal drug to increase implantation rates, talks through the phase 2 results.  She tells Fiona MacRae that the compound, which acts directly on the endometrium, may also help treat i...

5 Aug, 2024

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Interview with Madelon van Wely

Annual Meeting Science
Cochrane reviews are regarded as a gold standard in evidence-based healthcare. But how do Cochrane’s editors identify problematic studies, what are the challenges in identifying the best evidence, and how can automation such as AI help? These questions a...

5 Aug, 2024

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IVF

Advances in IVF are creating new ethical dilemmas around when to treat and when to say no. At a Campus course on the intersection between high-risk pregnancies and patient autonomy, Dr Kilian Vomstein, of Copenhagen University, spoke to Fiona MacRae about the importan...

Interview with Fiona MacRae

29 May, 2025

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Interview with Sophie Goodchild

ESHIRE Activities ESHRE Workshop
Personalised medicine in reproduction was the focus in May for ESHRE's first ever campus to involve all special interest groups. Sophie Goodchild from Focus on Reproduction asks Professor Anja Pinborg for her views on how clinics can tailor treatments to patients, the ...

15 May, 2025

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Interview with Shai Carmi

Best of ASRM & ESHRE 2025
Could genome editing lower the chance of developing common conditions which are influenced by multiple DNA variants? The authors of a recent paper have suggested this may one day be feasible according to mathematical modelling (1). Sophie Goodchild from ...

15 Mar, 2025

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Interview with Zdravka Veleva

IVF
How can fertility clinics give patients the best chance of children? Dr Sara Veleva from the University of Helsinki talks to Sophie Goodchild from Focus on Reproduction about ESHRE's guidelines on single and double embryo transfer, how to inform women about the risks f...

10 Dec, 2024

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