October 28, 2010
A fertility doctor has recommended that women in their 20s and even late teens should freeze ovarian tissue so they can have healthier babies when they are older. Dr Sherman Silber recommends not freezing individual eggs, as is currently done, but freezing ovarian tissues by taking a sliver out. This would allow up to 60,000 ...
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October 4, 2010
IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is all over the news these days, and there’s hardly a person who doesn’t know about assisted conception. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be that infertile couple either had to adopt or just never have children. With up to ten percent of all couples being infertile, ...
July 23, 2010
The current trend of women delaying childbirth until their 30s and even 40s on a regular basis has impacts for society as a whole. One of these may be that we will evolve to have children naturally at a later age. Personally, I’m skeptical. Researchers at the University of Sheffield studied marriage and birth trends since the ...
Tags: babies,
childbirth,
evolution,
fertility,
fertility evolution,
IVF,
menopause,
natural birth,
older mothers,
parents,
reproductive technology,
women's rights
June 28, 2010
Most women wouldn’t trust a man to take a birth control pill. And most men don’t want to deal with the hormonal side effects (moodiness, lower libido) of taking a pill. These have been the most significant stumbling blocks to finding a male contraceptive. Luckily scientists have now found a simple solution to these problems!
Tags: birth control pill,
contraception,
deactivated sperm,
equality,
fertility,
male contraception,
non-hormonal male pill,
reproductive choice,
reproductive equality,
reproductive technology,
side-effects of the pill,
sperm,
sperm that can't fertilise
February 9, 2010
Scientist have found out what it is that makes sperm swim faster when they get closer to the egg. This will be used to help further the search for a male contraceptive, something with a lot of obstacles to it, as well as helping men whose swimmers are too slow to cause a pregnancy. Apparently sperm don’t start ...
November 27, 2009
With women delaying children into their late 30s and early 40s infertility is becoming more and more of an issue for couples to deal with. Dr. Sherman Silber, a fertility expert, is exploring a new way to battle infertility: freezing ovarian tissue.