Most Canadian women who donate eggs for fertility treatment receive payment above their expenses – even though providing such fees violates the country’s controversial fertility law, suggests a new study.
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What Young Women Can Do About Infertility
“I say it’s fantastic if you want to focus on your career, but if you think you want kids, do something to deal with this now,” said Kiernan, 41. “I tell people to go get their eggs frozen and to be pro-active about it because if you’re not, you don’t know what will happen.”
How Babies are Really Made: Researchers Find Sperm Use a Tiny ‘Harpoon’ to Attach Themselves to Eggs
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that explains how eggs are fertilised. A 14 year study concluded that sperm harpoon the egg to facilitate fertilization.Researchers found a protein within the head of the sperm forms spiky filaments, suggesting that these tiny filaments may lash together the sperm and its target.
Early Egg Harvest May Up Pregnancy Odds for Some
Collecting eggs from older women at an earlier stage for vitro fertilization could improve the chances of pregnancy, researchers report.
China’s Retro In Vitro Rules Spark Debate
In China, as elsewhere, celebrity gossip and public policy tend not to intersect. The boundary dissolved late last month, however, when Xu Jinglei, a popular (and single) 41-year-old actress, explained in an interview that she had traveled to the United States in 2013 to freeze nine of her eggs. Although she could have had that procedure performed in China, she wouldn’t have been permitted, as long as she wasn’t married, to have those eggs implanted for a pregnancy.
Thailand Commercial Surrogacy Ban Takes Effect
A law banning commercial surrogacy took effect in Thailand on Thursday, the public health ministry said.The law made it illegal for clinics to provide surrogacy services, including the buying and selling of sperm and eggs, and the renting of wombs by surrogate mothers.
Biological clock Ticking? What You Need to Know About Freezing Your Eggs.
When Apple and Facebook announced last year that they would cover elective egg freezing for their female workers, the companies sparked a lot of curiosity about this procedure. The ability to put motherhood on hold by preserving your eggs for future use seemed like an alluring way to ease the babymaking pressure for couples who are meeting and marrying later in life.
Egg or Sperm? Scientists Identify A Gene that Makes the Call
Providing insight into the sometimes mysterious biology of reproduction, researchers in Japan have identified a gene that controls whether the reproductive precursor cells known as germ cells eventually become sperm or eggs.
Gene Editing Technique Offers Hope for Hereditary Diseases
Salk Institute researchers have developed a potential therapeutic avenue for preventing the transmission of mitochondrial diseases by selectively eliminating those mutations from eggs or early embryos.
Safety First: MPs Are In a Quandary Over a Vote on a New IVF Technique
It has been a long-standing rule in fertility treatment that no
scientist should attempt to modify the genes of a human embryo if that
modification can be passed on to subsequent generations through the
“germline” – the eggs and sperm of the future person. Now Parliament is
about to consider another form of germline modification, so-called
“three-parent embryos”, this time involving the genes of the
mitochondria, described as the tiny “power packs” of the cell, which
exist outside the nucleus.