The results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Human and Molecular Genetics journals, demonstrate for the first time that mutation in STAG3 gene is the major cause of human fertility disorders as it provokes a loss of function of the protein it encodes.
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Male Hormones Play Vital Role in Female Fertility
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry announced on March 3 that a team from the school has published a groundbreaking study revealing the importance of male hormones in female fertility. The study is titled “Androgens regulate ovarian follicular development by increasing follicle stimulating hormone receptor and microRNA-125b expression” and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Male Hormones Play Vital Role in Female Fertility
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry announced on March 3 that a team from the school has published a groundbreaking study revealing the importance of male hormones in female fertility. The study is titled “Androgens regulate ovarian follicular development by increasing follicle stimulating hormone receptor and microRNA-125b expression” and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Otherhood: Single Women Face ‘Circumstantial Infertility’
The “Otherhood” is made up of well educated, happy and financially independent women who find, that as their fertility wanes, they are still single and childless.
Egg Donor IRS Challenge Offers Future Sperm Tax Certainty
To Nichelle Perez, the $20,000 she received for donating her eggs for fertility treatments was a tax-exempt payment for pain and suffering.Not so, said the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which considers it income.
Fertility Models Baby Love
Ebenezer Scrooge eventual hero of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”, famously suggests that the poor could “decrease the surplus population” by dying rather than entering the workhouse. Little did the author know that the book’s appearance in 1843 was to coincide with an enormous demographic shift: in the rich world fertility dropped by more than half between the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth century.
More Than Sperm Support
Male mice that have had their seminal vesicles removed can still father offspring, but their fertility is greatly reduced, according to a study published today (January 27) in PNAS. Moreover, male offspring that are sired by mice lacking seminal vesicles are noticeably fatter and exhibit signs of insulin resistance and other symptoms of metabolic syndrome
Health Check: When Does Fertility Decline?
It’s said that ’40 is the new 30′ and ’50 is the new 40′. But, when it comes to female fertility, 40 is still 40, and the likelihood of successful pregnancy and childbirth has notably decreased from age 30.
Fertility Preservation Neglected at Most Cancer Centers
Infertility is consistently listed as one of the most distressing long-term side effects of cancer treatment for adolescents and young adults. Yet, the leading National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers—which should be leaders in fertility preservation—may not adequately help patients protect their fertility.
Mother Charged Over IVF Consent
A WA mother has faced court accused of forging her estranged husband’s signature to convince a fertility clinic to allow her to use a stored embryo to get pregnant.