VARTA is excited to announce that its 'Donor conception: towards openness' exhibition, held at Melbourne's City Library Gallery in June, has now been permanently housed on the VARTA website. Just as the original exhibition was the first of its kind, so too is this online gallery – a unique collection of art, photography, writing, artefacts and memorabilia provided by people whose lives have been touched by donor conception.

VARTA is delighted to launch today The Fertility and Assisted Reproduction: Teaching Module, a ground-breaking new sexuality teaching resource which has been developed by VARTA and Family Planning Victoria (FPV).

A panel of donors, recipient parents and donor-conceived people share their stories of donor linking at the VARTA's 'Donor conception: from anonymity to openness' event on 19 May 2016. Speakers include: Louise Johnson, Kate Bourne, Dr Fiona Kelly

Leading researchers and reproductive specialists discussed current research into whether we can create human sperm and eggs from stem cells and what this could mean for assisted reproductive laboratories and clinical practice in the future at the 2015 Twilight Seminar: Hope, hype or reality: can we make eggs or sperm from stem cells?

Parenting and child well-being in families created using gamete donation Donor treatment often focuses on parents and little is known about how the children conceived fare. This video was filmed at VARTA's seminar 'How are you going? - Experiences of donor conception' (8 April 2013).

Parenting and child well-being in families created using gamete donation Donor treatment often focuses on parents and little is known about how the children conceived fare. This video was filmed at VARTA's seminar 'How are you going? - Experiences of donor conception' (8 April 2013).

Parenting and child well-being in families created using gamete donation Donor treatment often focuses on parents and little is known about how the children conceived fare. This video was filmed at VARTA's seminar 'How are you going? - Experiences of donor conception' (8 April 2013).

Parenting and child well-being in families created using gamete donation Donor treatment often focuses on parents and little is known about how the children conceived fare. This video was filmed at VARTA's seminar 'How are you going? - Experiences of donor conception' (8 April 2013).

Parenting and child well-being in families created using gamete donation Donor treatment often focuses on parents and little is known about how the children conceived fare. This video was filmed at VARTA's seminar 'How are you going? - Experiences of donor conception' (8 April 2013).

The Genie is out of the bottle: DNA testing and the end of donor anonymity VARTA's 2019 seminar explored the rise of direct-to-consumer DNA testing and how more people are finding out they are not genetically related to family members in the way they always thought. The sold out event held on 17 June, examined how DNA testing is also being used together with genealogy and internet searches to trace donors and donor siblings. As this becomes more affordable, more people are accessing it, increasing the chance of connections and these trends have major implications for donor-conceived people, their parents and donors