reproductive medicine

Immunotherapy enabled 3 births in women with early menopause, pilot study finds

A pilot study from Karolinska Institutet has demonstrated that immunotherapy with rituximab can temporarily restore egg maturation in women with autoimmune premature ovarian insufficiency, a condition that typically leads to permanent infertility. Three of ten women treated in the study…

New blood test screens nearly 23,000 fetal genes without invasive procedures

Scientists have unveiled a non-invasive blood test capable of screening almost the entire protein-coding genome of a foetus, detecting 95 to 99 percent of the genetic variants found through invasive procedures such as amniocentesis. The technique, called non-invasive foetal sequencing…