Giving life to research

19 March 2021

A special online symposium will celebrate the archive of IVF pioneer, Sir Robert Edwards, and seek ways that this extraordinary archive can be used by researchers of today.

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"Reproduction matters to us all": latest issue of Horizons magazine

20 November 2020

Professor Kathy Niakan talks about why it’s vital to take a multidisciplined approach to understanding the urgent challenges posed by reproduction today – and introduces our Spotlight on some of this work, highlighted in the latest issue of Cambridge's Horizons magazine.

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥"empericum that never fails" in the margin of the Compendium of Gilbertus Anglicus. ̽»¨Ö±²¥instructions are for making and applying an amulet for conception.

Remedies for infertility: how performative rituals entered early medical literature

24 January 2016

A study of one of the most important medieval texts devoted to women’s medicine has opened a window into the many rituals associated with conception and childbirth. Research into the shifting communication of knowledge contributes to a wider project looking at the history of reproduction from ‘magical’ practices right through to IVF.

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Comparison of embryos of fish, salamander, turtle, chick, pig, cow, rabbit and human embryos at three different stages of development.

Haeckel’s embryos: the images that would not go away

06 July 2015

A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. ̽»¨Ö±²¥artist was accused of fraud – but, copied and recopied, his images gained iconic status as evidence of evolution.

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