Archive for January 2021
Rarely, twins can have totally different fathers…
There are less than 10 identified cases worldwide where twins have different fathers – one case in New Jersey in 2015 a DNA test resulted in an identified father only having to pay maintenance for one of the children. Normally at ovulation a woman produces only one egg, but occasionally there are two and if…
Read MoreNew sperm sorting device to increase success rates of IVF
Despite the growing use of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatments in the UK as a way to conceive a child, the success rate is surprisingly low. Only 32.2% of women under the age of 35 who undertook cycles of IVF treatment in 2010 resulted in a live birth, according to the NHS [1]. However, researchers…
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