Clearly the whole of our website revolves around the miracle of the human egg and its remarkable potential. However, in all the discussion about donation it can be easy to lose track of what lies at the very centre of what we are talking about. A minute cell, hardly visible to the naked eye, contains […]
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Daily Mail Story on 12th May - Statement
Headline issue The Daily Mail has published a story under the headlines “Fertility firm offers Cambridge girls £750 for eggs” (newspaper) and “£750 for your eggs: Fertility firm targets Cambridge Uni girls as critics blast company for exploiting ‘financially vulnerable’ students”(website) Refutation The implication from this story is that Altrui has been offering money or […]
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HFEA National Donation Strategy Group
In April the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced that they are planning to set up a new National Donation Strategy Group which is to be tasked with ‘raising awareness of donation and improving how donors are treated, whilst also protecting the interests of patients and donor conceived people’. We think that this is […]
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“Egg donation - as common as giving blood?”
The chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) wrote in the Telegraph last week that donating eggs and sperm should be something commonly considered by anyone able to do so. She further stated that donors should be welcomed at clinics, and that centres of excellence should be set up to provide a service […]
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Stem cells that can create human eggs
An article published yesterday (26th February) in ‘Nature Medicine’ holds out exciting possibilities for the future of fertility treatment in women. It has always been thought that women were born with their full complement of potential eggs in their ovaries and that these steadily declined throughout life until falling to zero at the menopause. However, […]
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