Reproduction

Topic description and stories

From exploring ancient ideas of generation to understanding new frontiers in fertility, Cambridge researchers are working across disciplines to study reproduction from multiple perspectives.

"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.

Image from the Books and Babies exhibition at Cambridge University Library

Let's talk about sex!

07 Jul 2011

The history of human reproduction – via its communication through the ages – is examined in a ground-breaking exhibition opening this week at...

You are what your mother ate

21 Mar 2011

Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health.

Immune interaction optimises foetal nourishment during pregnancy

08 Feb 2011

Paternal genes advise maternal immune cells on how to build the best womb for developing foetuses, researchers have found.

Amniocentesis: a key to identify autism in the womb?

04 Jan 2011

Cambridge researchers are pioneering a new test for autism in the womb, by measuring the levels of testosterone produced by the foetus, which makes...

Doctor’s orders, Roman style

04 Jan 2011

Rebecca Flemming from the Faculty of Classics works with ancient texts on health and reproduction.

Blood pressure breakthrough holds real hope

07 Oct 2010

Scientists have discovered a mechanism which raises blood pressure in pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly condition which occurs during pregnancy.

Professor Robert Edwards awarded Nobel Prize

04 Oct 2010

Professor Robert Edwards, Pensioner Fellow at Churchill College and Emeritus Professor of Human Reproduction at the University, was today awarded the...