Cause of multiple miscarriages identified

UK scientists have, for the first time, identified the cause of multiple mis- carriages, offering fresh hopes to thousands of women who have suffered a failed pregnancy.

Research into developing a treatment will be undertaken by the same academics behind the breakthrough research, which discovered that a lack of stem cells in the womb lining is causing thousands of women to have recurrent miscarriages.

One in five pregnancies are thought to end in a miscarriage, while one in 100 women trying to conceive suffer recurrent miscarriages, defined as the loss of three or more consecutive pregnancies.