Fertility Week (12 to 18 October) focuses on the impact that age has on fertility in Australia and around the world. In the face of drastically falling fertility rates the world is facing the prospect of declining populations. In 2017 Australia’s fertility rate – the average number of children a woman gives birth to – […]

An international research team including the University of Adelaide has found further evidence that rare gene mutations can cause cerebral palsy, findings which could lead to earlier diagnosis and new treatments for this devastating movement disorder. In the study published in the journal Nature Genetics  researchers employed gene sequencing to examine the DNA of 250 cerebral palsy families, […]