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Reproduction

July 2024

  • An elderly woman uses a mobility walker in a garden

    Why sex bias in labs means women are the losers in research into ageing

  • Lei and Abu travel to the US to freeze their eggs in the Guardian documentary, Frozen in Time, by Rongfei Guo

    Women's right to choose
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

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    The Guardian documentary
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • A pregnant woman and a midwife, seen from the shoulders down, stand facing each other

    From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

  • Fertility drug could lead to 7% increase in live births after IVF, trials show

  • Science Weekly
    ‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? – podcast

June 2024

  • Turquoise killifish.

    Why do women outlive men? Cells that develop into sperm and eggs could give the answer

    Japanese scientists find blocking production in killifish of germ cells closes lifespan gap between males and females
  • Close up of microplastics

    Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study

    Chinese scientists say further research on potential harm to reproduction from contamination is ‘imperative’
  • 3d illustration of sperm cells over black background

    Stable sperm counts in Denmark cast doubt on ‘spermageddon’ fears

    Contrary to other recent research, study finds no evidence of decline – but conclusions disputed by other fertility experts

March 2024

  • a male humpback whale penetrating another male

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us

    The first documented sex between two male humpback whales is just the latest challenge to our presumptions about sexuality

February 2024

  • Campaigners have warned that “procreation has become a luxury item”, after it emerged that the fertility rate in England and Wales had fallen to its lowest level since records began.

    People in the UK: if you want children, is there anything that is holding you back?

    We’d like to hear from people living in the UK who would like to have children what may have been causing them to put it off
  • two women standing in a forested area

    ‘Medical colonialism’: midwives sue Hawaii over law regulating Native birth workers

    Exclusive: Native Hawaiian midwives say new law criminalizes Indigenous birthing customs and will deal blow to maternal health

    • Trump voices ‘strong support’ for IVF treatments after Alabama ruling

    • Science Weekly
      Why are we still waiting for a male contraceptive pill?

    • ‘This is a war on birth’: how one US organization helps pregnant Palestinians from afar

January 2024

  • A ranger reaches out towards female northern white rhino Najin, 30, one of the last two northern white rhinos on the planet

    ‘Rewinding human mistakes’: can IVF save the world’s most threatened species?

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    Observer book of the week
    Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation by Dr Jen Gunter – why periods are ‘a muddled burden’

December 2023

  • Early stage embryo

    Scientists call for review of UK’s 14-day rule on embryo research

    Extending the limit could help uncover causes of recurrent miscarriage and congenital conditions, experts say
  • Sperm cells about to fertilize an ovum in paperwork

    Plastics, pesticides and pills: how chemical exposures affect sperm health

    Poor diet, stress, smoking and obesity are known factors impairing sperm health, but they don’t paint the entire picture
  • Illustration of a woman turning her head back to look at a window, with a pregnancy test in front of her.

    The great fertility divide
    When you stop trying to get pregnant: ‘I’m not willing to put my body through any more’

    Black people who have experienced infertility talk about the difficult decision to end their pursuit of parenthood
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