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Current rules mean a single sperm donor can only create ten families in this country. But there is no regulation limiting the number of families that donors can create overseas.

Fertility clinics that mis-sell treatments to prospective parents should face fines, the regulator has said. Julia Chain, chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation

Fertility experts are calling on vitro fertilisation (IVF) patients to consider donating their unused embryos after a shortage in donations in 15 years.

Scientists complain after ‘sheer waste’ of human embryos discarded despite patients’ wishes

The most common age to freeze eggs in the UK currently stands at 38, yet women in their twenties are increasingly urging others of the same age to opt into the procedure.

EXCLUSIVE: Under current official guidelines in the UK, women under the age of 40 struggling to have a child should get three cycles of the fertility treatment on the NHS.

This is why it's important to tell partners or parents whether you’d want your eggs, sperm or embryos to be used after you’ve died.

Hollywood actress Sienna Miller revealed last year that she had frozen her eggs aged 40 to avoid the existential threat of her ticking biological clock.

The dramatic rise in egg freezing could be due to the pandemic, the UK fertility regulator says.

Experts say restrictions on socialising during Covid crisis may have led more women to seek to preserve fertility