European fertility clinics used cancer-causing sperm for 17 years, prompting urgent calls for genetic screening reforms and international donor limits.

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has also proposed a limit of 50 families per donor across the EU.

A sperm donor with a rare genetic mutation linked to an increased risk of developing cancer fathered at least 197 children across Europe, some of whom have already died from the disease, according to ...

A genetic mutation that carries a 90% cancer risk has been passed on by an unwitting sperm donor to dozens of children, a ...

A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive ...

Around 200 children in several countries were conceived with sperm from a single donor who unknowingly carried a rare genetic ...

A sperm donor who carried a cancer-causing gene mutation fathered nearly 200 children, an investigation by 14 European news ...

The process of finding a sperm donor is strange because we can only look at documents. It's also expensive, and we have not yet gotten pregnant. The calling to have children and be a mother came from ...

One man is taking “be fruitful and multiply” to a whole new level. Rob Albon has devoted his life to supporting a controversial effort by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk. Albon, who lives in a ...

Because only part of the man's sperm carried the mutation, only the second round of genetic testing revealed the problem. By ...

A Netflix docuseries has put a spotlight on the unregulated world of sperm donation, particularly the lack of stopgap measures that might prevent donors who have been banned by one country from simply ...

Nearly 200 children have been conceived using sperm from a donor with a cancer-causing gene, an investigation in Europe has revealed.