# fertilisation

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Dutch IVF clinic says 26 women may have been fertilised with the wrong sperm

The clinic said there’s a chance the egg cells may have been fertilised by sperm other than that of the intended father.

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Dec 28th 2016, 9:55 PM

# Take a Break

Watch: The world's first IVF puppies are pretty goddamn cute

It also could help eradicate heritable diseases in dogs, according to the researchers.

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Dec 10th 2015, 11:05 AM

# IVF

Court denies mother's attempt to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs

The daughter died in 2011 at age 28 and had signed a consent form agreeing that her eggs could be stored after her death.

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Jun 15th 2015, 8:54 PM

Voices

Opinion: In Ireland a pregnancy must continue even if a woman is raped, suicidal or clinically dead

Pregnancy isn’t as black and white as we would like. There are fatal foetal abnormalities, health risks, complications, and pregnancy from rape and incest. In each instance our laws allow one outcome: have the child.

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Dec 18th 2014, 6:00 PM

# The Future

Scientists launch animal sperm bank to recreate populations on other planets

The scientists in Japan were quick to stress that there is presently no human application for the technology but this may be explored in the future.

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Aug 28th 2013, 9:30 PM

# Pregnancy

World's first womb transplant woman is pregnant

The woman was described as a “medical miracle” when she became the first in the world to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor.

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Apr 12th 2013, 4:22 PM