A short clip from our RBMO Live webinar of March 17th, featuring Prof. John Aitken from his talk on the demographics and development of the global fertility crisis.
Full recording available on our youtube channel: youtu.be/gcj89udcNO8
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The findings of this new study highlight the potential of PEGylated fibrin hydrogel as a biomimetic scaffold in ovarian tissue engineering, though the authors caution that further optimization is required for extended culture periods and clinical translation.
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This new study provides important insights into disclosure processes in donor-conceived families, particularly in heterosexual contexts. The findings could help MAR professionals improve their practices and provide better support to families using donor gametes.
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The April issue of RBMO is out in full now
Issue 52.4 features 19 original research and review articles, a commentary on oocyte quality in the era of AI, and a countercurrent contribution rethinking insemination for good-prognosis couples.
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Too often, we reduce a complex condition to a single cause—but endometrial inflammation can have multiple origins, not just microbial ones.
Let’s move toward more precise, individualized care.
Because better understanding leads to better outcomes.
This new review may be used as a framework upon which individualised counselling and psychosocial support can be provided throughout treatment for patients, ultimately leading to improved experiences and better psychological outcomes for both recipients and offspring.
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From our February issue, 52.2, this narrative review disentangles the current role of luteinizing hormone activity in ART by bridging foundational biological insights with the emerging paradigm of patient-specific treatment strategies to optimize reproductive outcomes.
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This new survey indicates that the Australian public is largely supportive of mitochondrial donation’s clinical implementation, if shown to be safe in the clinical trial program that is currently progressing.
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Their results show that live birth rates appear unaffected in endometriosis cases. However, the presence of adenomyosis increases the risk of miscarriages and decreases live birth rate.
All our Editor’s Choice papers are made free to read. Find it in issue 52.3 now:
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This study analyses data from a very large number of endometriosis and non-endometriosis cases, evaluating a total of 205,978 oocytes morphologically to show that endometriosis and adenomyosis do not affect the oocyte morphology and oocyte quality.
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Selected as an Editor’s Choice from our March issue, this paper adds to the debate surrounding the existence of correlations between endometriosis, oocyte morphology and quality
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We are pleased to publish the Abstracts of the 15th Biennial ALPHA Conference, ahead of the event this week 17th-19th April, in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The comprehensive free-to-read collection features 78 abstracts, available from our issue archive, now
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This study found no significant increase in the odds of pregnancy loss in a second frozen embryo transfer (FET) among patients who experienced either a clinical- or biochemical pregnancy loss in their first FET, regardless of whether the embryo was euploid or untested.
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This review underscores the importance of fertility preservation in Turner syndrome, evaluates current methods, and addresses barriers and ethical complexities.
Published open access, you can read the full review for free from issue 52.4, now:
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In this new review article, the authors make a case to reconsider surgical interventions for most women with endometriomas if we are to uphold the principle of ‘first, do no harm.’
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This new study examines the prevalence of antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) in women with recurrent early pregnancy loss (REPL), and whether they affect subsequent pregnancy outcomes.
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From the results of this study into time and liquid volume of thawing solution, the authors conclude that one-step warming can simplify culture operations, specifically, by reducing the time required for embryo manipulation and medium inventory management.
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Their vision for a multi-cycle approach represents a significant advancement in ART, aiming to optimize the number of oocytes or embryos retrieved, improve cumulative live birth rates per couple, and reduce time to pregnancy.
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Their paper argues that the integration of advanced predictive models and artificial intelligence will enable personalized therapeutic strategies and optimized timelines, while clear and empathetic communication will help patients fully understand their treatment journey and potential outcomes.
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In this new Commentary article, Alberto Vaiarelli and colleagues make a case for the future of the multi-cycle approach in IVF resting on three essential pillars: the ability to predict, to explain, and to support.
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This new study investigates the use of the Divine Dose calculator in routine care, and its influence on reducing treatment risk due to ovarian hyperstimulation.
The paper is published open access, available to read in full from our in-press articles section, now:
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This systematic review and meta-analysis provides novel evidence of a significant association between adenomyosis and chronic endometritis (CE), suggesting that women with adenomyosis have a markedly higher risk of CE compared with those without adenomyosis.
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This large-scale study, conducted across three centres in Japan, provides strong evidence of increased risk of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) and morbid PAS in pregnancies following programmed cycle frozen embryo transfer.
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This network meta-analysis evaluates the effectiveness of progestogen administration routes on clinical pregnancy (CPR) and live birth rates (LBR) in fresh IVF cycles, and shows that oral and intramuscular progestogens may be more effective in improving IVF outcomes.
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This new study into the association between blastocyst morphometrics, live birth, obstetric complications and perinatal outcomes indicates that both the inner cell mass area and trophectoderm cell count are independently associated with live births following embryo transfer.
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This new systematic review evaluates studies investigating pregnancy outcomes in women with idiopathic premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) compared with women without POI, following both spontaneous and assisted conceptions.
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This new study into air quality and IVF shows chronic exposure to air pollutants in the year preceding FET was associated with lower odds of live birth success.
The results highlight that complying with European limits may contribute to improved reproductive outcomes.
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This new Countercurrent from Barbara Lawrenz and Baris Ata, proposes a new approach to the dilemma of how managing surplus embryos they dub ‘smart insemination – preserving the rest’.
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From our January issue, this comprehensive review assess the risks of congenital anomalies associated with each technique of reproductive medicine, along with parental factors and major congenital anomaly categories according to the mode of conception.
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The results of this new study into male type 2 diabetes mellitus show that while it is significantly associated with surgical sperm retrieval, it does not adversely affect conventional semen quality or cumulative live birth rates in modern ART.
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