Thursday briefing: What the UK’s first womb transplant means for the future of fertility

In today’s newsletter: does the UK’s first successful womb transplant mean that men could one day carry babies?

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Good morning. Yesterday afternoon, a private jet crashed in the Tver region near Moscow, killing all 10 passengers on board. Among them, according to Russian authorities, was Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner paramilitary chief who launched an armed mutiny in June. For the latest on his dramatic yet somehow unsurprising death, visit our live blog.

For today, I’ll be looking at a very different story, the UK’s first ever womb transplant. It’s been hailed as a fertility landmark and the dawn of a new era, offering dozens of infertile women the chance to have babies every year. The recipient was a woman born without a womb; the donor was her elder sister, who already has two children.

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