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Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?

Louisa Ghevaert was pleased to attend Progress Educational Trust's event "Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?" on 26 March 2025. Fertility is continuing to decline across the globe and birth rates are steadily falling. Fertility rates are now at the lowest in the UK since World War II. As such, this event looked at a range of factors influencing declining global fertility and birth rates and debated whether fertility treatment can bridge the gap and solve population decline. It also shone a light on the need for the UK to have better policies from a fertility perspective with more impact as a number of issues are not addressed in the workplace and this is affecting women's decisions to have children.
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Genetic Testing Firm 23andMe Files For Bankruptcy: What Does This Mean For Me?

On 23 March 2025 came news that genetic testing firm 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy following financial difficulties and concerns about data privacy. 23andMe started in 2006 and went public in 2021. However, it never made a profit. It struggled to convert customers who purchased its core product, an at-home DNA testing kit, into subscribers offering personalised feedback and wellness plans. In 2023, 23andMe was hacked affecting the personal data of 7 million users, resulting in a reported $30 million settlement bill. Then in 2024, it let go of forty percent of its workforce and stopped the development of its research and development programmes. Its recent decision to file for bankruptcy is aimed at procuring a sale. However, it leaves its 15 million users around the world questioning what will happen to their genetic data?
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Ethica Fertility Launch Event

Louisa Ghevaert had the pleasure of celebrating the Ethica Fertility launch event on 20 March 2025 at Barnby Street in London with other dedicated professionals in the fertility and family building space. Ethica Fertility's mission is to offer an innovative, more personalised approach to fertility care and reproductive health. Louisa was delighted to meet the team at Ethica Fertility, take a tour of their state of the art clinic facilities and learn more about their holistic approach to assisted conception and patient centric care. Ethica Fertility seeks to redefine fertility care and make fertility care more inclusive, effective and supportive, leading to better outcomes for patients no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation or family structure.
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Epigenetics In Human Reproduction

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend the Nuffield Council on Bioethics workshop “Epigenetics in human reproduction” in central London on 11 March 2025. This event looked at the use and implications of epigenetics in human reproduction. It considered the inter-relationships between the reproductive environment, the epigenome, long-term health and assisted reproductive technologies. It went on to explore current and future scientific applications, ethical, legal and social implications. In doing so, it explored all sorts of important and complex questions and issues. How do you measure or control the environment? How effective may an intervention be and at what stage to optimise health, pregnancy and birth? How do you account for epigenetic responses (mechanisms that regulate gene expression without changing the DNA sequence) that differ between people? How reliable is epigenetic testing? How can you provide effective messaging? How do you address these issues from a policy perspective?
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