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.

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

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