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Members of the Glasgow fertility support group Cradle, are angered at the ill-informed journalism of some of the leading Scottish tabloid newspapers.

Recent public media attention surrounding IVF and “sex selection” has once again been poorly reported on and directly linked to IVF in a negative fashion. Public perception and support for those undergoing Assisted Reproduction has once again been damaged.

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A National centre to help couples who fear passing on dangerous genetic conditions to their children is to open in Glasgow.
The Scottish Executive will fund the new pre-implantation genetic diagnosis service to help at least 15 families a year. But today doctors insisted they would not be helping couples to create ‘designer babies’ unlike controversial units in England.

Glasgow Royal Infirmary will work with experts in genetic conditions from the Duncan Guthrie Unit at Yorkhill Sick Kids, offering fresh hope to families throughout Scotland. Some of the patients from all over Scotland treated at the NHS centre, which opens next month, will have experienced multiple miscarriages as a result of pregnancies that could not survive to term.

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Scientists have identified a protein essential for human sperm to fuse to an egg, which could lead to new methods of treating infertility.
The Japanese team has named the protein Izumo, after a Japanese shrine dedicated to marriage.

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