As more people turn to donor sperm to grow their families, a new sperm bank is challenging outdated norms.

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has also proposed a limit of 50 families per donor across the EU.

A SPERM donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has fathered at least 197 children across Europe, some of whom have already died. Only a small number of those who inherit the mutation ...

European fertility clinics used cancer-causing sperm for 17 years, prompting urgent calls for genetic screening reforms and international donor limits.

Fiona Wark from Kinross underwent IVF treatment with donor sperm from Denmark and is now calling for tighter fertility safeguards.

Nearly 200 children have been conceived using sperm from a donor with a cancer-causing gene, an investigation in Europe has revealed.

“The TP53 mutation (pathogenic variant) was not present throughout the donor’s body tissues, meaning he had not inherited it. The mutation would appear to have arisen in the testes but to have ...

Around 200 children in several countries were conceived with sperm from a single donor carrying a rare genetic mutation ...

Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.

A SPERM bank is making donors take an IQ test. Donor Network said it was “raising the bar in the fertility industry” as more ...

One man is taking “be fruitful and multiply” to a whole new level. Rob Albon has devoted his life to supporting a controversial effort by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk. Albon, who lives in a ...

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