A Birmingham widow who won a High Court battle to prevent her dead husband’s frozen sperm from being destroyed said she had “won back her future”.
A Birmingham widow who won a High Court battle to prevent her dead husband’s frozen sperm from being destroyed said she had “won back her futur
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Newly Identified Small-RNA Pathway Defends Genome Against the Enemy Within
Reproductive cells, such as an egg and sperm, join to form stem cells that can mature into any tissue type. But how do reproductive cells arise? We humans are born with all of the reproductive cells that we will ever produce. But in plants things are very different. They first generate mature, adult cells and only later “reprogram” some of them to produce eggs and sperm.
When Scientists Believed There was a Little Man Inside Every Sperm Cell
Preformationism was a popular theory in the 17th and 18th centuries. It allowed people to believe in a clockwork world, where there were tiny people running around in sperm. And those tiny people also had tiny people in their sperm. But there was a peculiar kind of logic to it all.
The Secret of Fertile Sperm
To better understand the causes of male infertility, a team of Bay Area researchers is exploring the factors, both physiological and biochemical, that differentiate fertile sperm from infertile sperm.
Sperm Finding Could Improve Fertility, Contraceptives
A new study headed up by Cornell scientists has found that a component of the sperm membrane tightly controls a crucial step in fertilization, making it a prime target for efforts to either assist fertilization or prevent it.
Kansas Sperm Donor to Appeal Ruling Over Child Support
A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple said Thursday he would appeal a judge’s ruling that he is the “presumptive father” of the mother’s 4-year-old daughter, which makes him potentially liable for child support.
Woman’s Fight Over Right to Sperm of Fiancé in Coma
A woman has launched a legal battle for the right to ”harvest” her seriously-ill partner’s sperm so that she can have his children.
Transgender People Are Having Kids All Kinds of Ways; Doctors Need to Get Used to It
As more of the estimated 700,000 transgender people in the United States explore new ways to make families, we’re likely to see even more mixes of reproductive parts and social and gender identities of people and their partners—never mind the sperm, eggs, or wombs contributed by third parties.
Sperm Banks Warned Not to Comply with Donor Demands
Sperm banks should not agree to conditions which donors try to impose on the use of their sperm, the Dutch human rights board said on Tuesday.
Melbourne Sperm Donor Dad Gets Access to Daughter Despite Objections of Lesbian Parents
A Melbourne sperm donor dad has been granted access to his daughter despite the objections of her lesbian parents to his youthful partying ways.