The film “Joy” is based on the true story behind the conception of IVF – "in vitro fertilisation”. It stars Bill Nighy as obstetrician Patrick Steptoe, James Norton as biologist Robert Edwards, and Thomasin McKenzie as embryologist nurse Jean Purdy, the "triad" that invented IVF. In 2010 Edwards and Steptoe were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for this extraordinary outcome; Purdy, on the other hand, remained in the shade for far too long.

Italy has the oldest mothers in Europe. More than 8 out of every 100 babies have mothers over40. But why don't people have children earlier?

Reproductive cells can be taken out, frozen, and used in a pregnancy at a later date. But the truth is that hardly anyone freezes their egg

When are you going to have kids? Not everyone who doesn't have children is doing so by choice; one in six struggle with infertility

The fertility gap it’s the difference between the amount children we would like to have and the children we actually have.

Jessica Hepburn has come to represent the people who haven't and won't be able to conceive, even with all the medical aid available

Giorgia Surina's novel is a step towards highlighting the subject of single motherhood

A spirited and forthright testimony about having children late in life: getting pregnant after a certain age is not exactly simple

Procedures to combat infertility have allowed millions of people to become parents. They are not a solution to the fertility gap, though.

Can it be said that between 13 and 51 year old the fertility window for women is open? No: one does not remain fertile until her last period