Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer gene has been used to conceive almost 200 babies in Europe, according to ...

Nearly 200 children have been conceived using sperm from a donor with a cancer-causing gene, an investigation in Europe has revealed.

A genetic mutation that carries a 90% cancer risk has been passed on by an unwitting sperm donor to dozens of children, a Europe-wide investigation has revealed.

Some British women who had fertility treatment abroad conceived children with his sperm (Picture: Getty) Sperm from a donor ...

“The TP53 mutation (pathogenic variant) was not present throughout the donor’s body tissues, meaning he had not inherited it. The mutation would appear to have arisen in the testes but to have ...

A single sperm donor who carries a rare cancer-causing genetic mutation has fathered at least 197 children across 14 ...

The Danish European Sperm Bank has acknowledged the donor’s sperm was overused and immediately blocked him once the mutation was discovered. A sperm donor who unknowingly carried a rare, ...

A Danish sperm donor was found to be a carrier of a rare TP53 genetic mutation, passing on an increased cancer risk to nearly ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

Artificial intelligence tools can now help choose the most promising embryos for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), although experts have warned of some ethical concerns. Procedures such as IVF allow ...