The big business of sperm banking has had the one side effect everyone predicted all along: Eventually the babies conceived with anonymously donated, rigorously selected sperm become teenagers and young adults who often want to find out more about their biological dads.
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Fact or Fiction? Test Your Knowledge of Sperm Donation Before the “Generation Cryo” Premiere
If life were a sitcom, any Average Joe could walk into a sperm bank, make a quick donation and dart back home before dinner with a fistful of cash.
My Wife and I are Trying to Get Pregnant. How Do I Improve My Sperm Health?
Focusing on male fertility, there are three things to consider: sperm quantity, quality and motility.
An Inconvenient Truth: ICSI Is Not Necessary For The Majority Of IVF Patients
Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently criticised the overuse of intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), the same concern having been voiced by Professor Andre Van Steirteghem back in 2010 and Professor Rob Norman back in 2009, both recognised opinion leaders in IVF in the northern and southern hemispheres. Despite their views, the increased use of ICSI continues unabated, so why is nobody listening?
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.
France Reports Drop in Sperm Donors
Sperm donations in France have decreased significantly in recent years and new figures from the National Agency for Biomedicine are likely to show a further drop.
Carrots? More Sex? 7 Simple Things That Boost His Fertility
Remember when we broke your guy’s heart when we told you that some of his favorite things, from eating bacon to watching TV, are harming his fertility? Well, we’re ready to talk more about his sperm — but this time we bring you good news!
Babies Born From Donor Sperm Still Big Business
With more than 300 sperm banks expected to rake in a third of $1 billion this year, sperm donation births are a big business in the United States. ABC News learned of at least five individuals who had fathered more than 100 children and one individual who had fathered nearly 200.
Carrots Boost Male Fertility, Improve Sperm: Study
New research found that eating orange and yellow fruits and vegetables may make sperm swim faster, while eating red vegetables may increase the production of healthy sperm.
Reproductive Biologists Move In Vitro Fertilization Knowledge Forward
Two new papers from reproductive biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with international partners, report advances in understanding the basic processes of sperm capacitation that may one day improve success rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by providing a shortcut to bypass problems, and may eventually lead to a male contraceptive.