Being too fat or thin can damage a man’s fertility, scientists said yesterday.

DOCTORS are getting ready to introduce a cheap in vitro fertilisation procedure across Africa, where women are sometimes ostracised as witches or social outcasts if they cannot have children.

Drinking too much coffee can reduce the chances of a woman with fertility problems getting pregnant, a study has shown.

THE first mother-to-daughter egg donation was announced by doctors yesterday.

The strange sex life of the African naked mole-rat is helping scientists understand how stress can lead to infertility.

TEENAGE girls who get pregnant “behind the bike sheds” are only obeying nature’s law and should not be condemned out of hand, an expert said yesterday.

Scientists have cloned human embryos for the first time using immature eggs matured in a dish – a technique that may help cloning become a viable option for growing patients’ own replacement tissue to treat diseases.

AN orgasm is literally a mind-blowing experience for a woman, scientists revealed yesterday.

FEARS have been raised that an ovarian tissue transplant procedure which helped a woman get pregnant after being made infertile by cancer treatment could be misused by those looking to have “designer” children.

Human embryo cells have been used to treat rats with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a move that has important implications for therapeutic cloning, it was revealed today.

A woman made infertile by cancer treatment is expecting a baby after undergoing an ovarian tissue transplant, it was revealed today.

Cloning duplicate human beings may be justified in the future if the dangers can be overcome, a leading bio-ethics expert said today.