Egg Freezing Q&A with Fertility Expert
As with any new clinical technology, there are inevitably many questions that people ask when it comes to egg freezing. To answer some of the most common questions, we teamed …
Course: Making Babies in the 21st Century
An industry that welcomes regulation
Dr Paul Serhal is an Honorary Lecturer at UCL and the Medical Director of The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health (CRGH) in London. In this clip, he gives his …
How important is biology?
Donor conception highlights – and at the same time challenges – our idea of what it means to be a parent. It highlights the biological nature of parenthood, as it …
Lyn’s story
We meet Lyn, a young woman from Belgium, who tells her story of uncovering – at the age of twenty – that she was donor-conceived. Lyn also shares her views …
Health concerns in the unregulated context
Ruth Macklin is a principal collaborator of The Ethics Centre at the Institute for Women’s Health, UCL and a Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College in New York. She is …
How to think about ethics: An introduction
During the course of the next six weeks, we’ll encounter a number of choices that people often have to confront when thinking about assisted reproduction and genomic medicine in general. …
Discussing egg freezing
Join us as we listen in on a discussion between a group of MSc students at UCL’s Institute for Women’s Health. They have been asked to discuss the pros and …
Not a straightforward option
We next meet Dr Helen O’Neill, a scientist and teaching fellow at UCL’s Institute for Women’s Health. She gives her views on egg freezing as a technology and the current …
Access to fertility services
Saghar Kasiri is a senior embryologist with over 20 years experience in fertility medicine. Previously at the London Fertility Clinic, she now works on lowering cost and improving the quality …
Uncertainty about outcomes
Dr Gidon Lieberman is a senior clinical lecturer at UCL and a Consultant in Fertility Medicine at The Whittington Hospital. He has extensive experience as a fertility doctor in both …
Egg freezing and reproductive freedom
Although egg freezing is prone to false advertising, and there might be reasons to be concerned about the introduction of egg freezing as an incentive in the workplace, women also …
How the technology has changed
In this video, we meet Mr Alpesh Doshi, UCL lecturer and senior embryologist at The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health. Alpesh has been involved in IVF for almost two …
What egg freezing involves
Here we meet Kalliope again, this time not telling her own story, but talking about her scientific work at a busy London fertility clinic, where she serves as the Deputy …
Egg freezing – a perspective
Meet Kalliope, a young, female embryologist working at CRGH, a premier fertility clinic in London. Kalliope spends her working week improving the fertility chances of her clients, but she has …
Egg freezing: An introduction
What is egg freezing? In this article, we will consider social egg freezing, meaning egg freezing without a prior medical indication. This is a technology that has grown considerably in …
