With proper storage, even 40-year-old sperm can get the job done.
A North Oaks-based company called ReproTech says it played a role in the August birth of twin girls to a woman inseminated with sperm that was frozen back in 1971.
Few details about the sperm donor and birth family were available for privacy reasons, but the local company says the previous record for a successful live birth using “cryopreserved” sperm was 28 years.
Russell Bierbaum, chief executive at ReproTech, said he hopes the story will help convince more young men facing a cancer diagnosis to consider banking their sperm before undergoing chemotherapy treatments that could impair their fertility. Read full article.
