In a small conference room overlooking this city’s smog-shrouded skyline, Huang Jinlai outlines his offer to China’s childless elite: for $240,000, a baby with your DNA, gender of your choice, born by a coddled but captive rural woman.
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Claims That U.S. Soybeans Cause Infertility Stoke China’s GMO Battle
If there’s any wonder why China is taking it slow with genetically modified food, two separate developments this week will tell you why.
Demand For Fertility Soups, Statues, And Soothsayers Is On The Rise In China
In a dimly-lit arcade in downtown Shanghai, shopkeeper Xia Zihan holds out a glinting, yellow-glass carving of the fertility goddess Guanyin, a range she says is starting to sell well after China relaxed its single-child policy last month.
Is Smog to Blame for Shanghai’s Sperm Crisis? Doctors Blame Pollution for Low Fertility Rate
Smog in China’s most populated city is being blamed for a fertility crisis as the incidence of low sperm counts among its men reaches record levels.
Air Pollution Blamed for Spiking Infertility Rates Among Women in China
A lot of women in China are getting infertile, no thanks to the government’s one-child policy but to the air pollution which has gripped and seriously affected the health of thousands in the country, according to statistics gathered by researchers.
Pollutants’ Effect on Infertility Rates in China to be Examined
Study of link between chemicals and rise in number of women unable to bear children.
Scientists Analyze Genetic Makeup of Human and Mouse Embryos in Unprecedented Detail
UCLA scientists, in collaboration with teams in China, have used the powerful technology of single-cell RNA sequencing to track the genetic development of a human and a mouse embryo at an unprecedented level of accuracy.
Sperm Black Market in China
Huang, a professional black-market sperm donor, vowed for a third time to Yu Hua and her husband, “I swear that I will never meet this child for my whole life under any circumstances!”
The couple from Shanxi Province nodded. They had been longing for a child, and Huang was tall and intelligent. Although not classically handsome, he bore a striking resemblance to Yu Hua’s husband, and shared his blood type, ensuring no one would ever have to know their secret.
They signed the agreement to let Huang donate his sperm to the wife, joining the ranks of a growing number of Chinese couples who resort to the Internet-based black market, despite the lack of safeguards to protect women from giving birth to an unhealthy baby. There are only 11 sperm banks in China, and they suffer from a shortage of sperm donors, explains Jiang Xiang-long, director of the Jiangxi Province Human Sperm Bank. Read full article.