Earlier this month, Minister for Health Simon Donnelly received Cabinet approval to forward the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2022 to the committee on health for review in January. This marks a ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in a landmark case concerning the legal motherhood of a child born through a surrogacy arrangement. While the High Court seemed willing to ...

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

The Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Bill has passed through the Seanad, ending a long wait for many parents of children born through surrogacy to be legally recognised as such. Only the biological ...

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than ...

A human embryo embeds itself into a fake uterus created by researchers. Screenshot from an Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia video Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in human semen and follicular fluid, the liquid that surrounds an egg in an ovarian follicle. "This is not an isolated finding –– it appears to be quite common," ...

Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular fluid, according ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in human reproductive fluids, raising concerns about potential risks to fertility and reproductive health. The study, presented at the ESHRE meeting, found ...