M.Med.Sci in Assisted Reproduction Technology

13/08/2022

Congratulations to Classes of 2019-20 and 2020-21 who were able to graduate in person yesterday and today. Steph and I were privileged to be part of the platform party for both ceremonies. As always, I wish all our students all the very best for their future careers and lives! Thanks for the memories, Nicky ###

16/10/2020

Always a wonderful occasion when we are able to take some of our ART student's work and see it published. Here is a review article on the paternal programming of offspring health written with two of our ART students from 2019-2020

In recent years, a new focus of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis has emerged examining the potential role that paternal heal…

16/10/2020

See the latest research article from one of our academic team into the impact of IVF on offspring health in mice.

AbstractSTUDY QUESTION. Do the long-term health outcomes following IVF differ depending upon the duration of embryo culture before transfer?SUMMARY ANSWER. Us

25/07/2020

World Embryologist Day!
Today was chosen because it is Louise Brown' birthday, the 1st IVF baby. Congratulations to embryologists worldwide, thank you for all your hard work in making miracles happen every day and Happy Birthday Louise :)

13/07/2020

A very well attended webinar on Time Lapse Technology with Interesting deliberations on over a decade long experience with TL systems by a panel of international experts

04/07/2020

Our latest work showing that first and second generation offspring cardiovascular function are impaired in response to either s***m or seminal fluid from males fed a low protein diet.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1113/JP278270

And further on, maternal preimplantation low protein diet influences offspring bone development and growth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-developmental-origins-of-health-and-disease/article/periconception-maternal-lowprotein-diet-adversely-affects-male-mouse-fetal-bone-growth-and-mineral-density-quality-in-late-gestation/CA9F36953E63320FDF76DE10145FADAD

23/05/2020

The MMedSci ART team recently published ''Apoptosis triggers the release of microRNA miR-294 in spent culture media of blastocysts'' in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. Feel free to read and share here: https://rdcu.be/b4kJ5

To study whether members of the miR-290-295 cluster in spent culture medium (SCM) of embryos are correlated with morphokinetics and apoptosis. Cryopreserved 1-cell stage mouse embryos were cultured to the blastocyst stage, development was monitored by time-lapse, 59 SCM were collected, and miR-291a....

14/05/2020

We’re helping in the fight against COVID-19
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumni/newseventsandfeatures/news/news-items/alt/we're-helping-in-the-fight-against-covid-19.aspx