The editor-in-chief of one of the world’s leading reproductive medicine journals has attacked the rising use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for the treatment of infertility, following publication of the latest world report on assisted reproductive technologies (ART) [1] today (Saturday). The report in Human Reproduction shows that while ICSI use has levelled off in
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A woman in the USA who acted as a surrogate for a single man, and gave birth to triplets, has taken her claim for custody of at least one of the children to an appeals court. Melissa Cook agreed to act as a surrogate for the man, known as CM, in 2015 using his sperm
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A rare genetic mutation reduces the risk of having a heart attack by one-third, a study has found. The mutation, which substantially lowers levels of non-HDL cholesterol – a marker for heart-disease risk – is already being investigated as potential drug target for preventing heart disease. ‘[This is] an important and previously unknown mechanism for modulating
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As reported by the agency “Xinhua” on Thursday 29 of October China ends “one – child policy”, allowing families have two children. According to the agency every family in China can have 2 children. Demographical “one – child” policy was accepted in China in 1970s. It touches the most of the Chinese families with the
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One of the largest-ever genetics studies in the social sciences has found 74 genetic variants that are associated with the amount of time an individual spends in education. However, the researchers estimate that the variants they identified comprise just 0.43 percent of the variation in length of time spent studying across individuals. In other words,
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Daljinder Kaur, a 70-year old Indian woman, has just given birth to her first child who was conceived in-vitro by IVF with egg donation from a fertility clinic. The mother purportedly declared: « When we saw the IVF advert, we thought we should also give it a try as I badly wanted to have a
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Waiting for the baby – is an exciting and pleasant time when we talking about 9 month of pregnancy. But how long will you have to stay in the waiting list in the clinic for human Reproduction? What countries have the shortest waiting time for the surrogacy end egg donation? Why there are waiting lists?
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Researchers at the Valence Institute in Spain and at the American University in Stanford, California, have announced succeeding in developing human spermatozoids from skin cells. This work was published April 26 in Scientific Reports, the online journal of the review Nature. To obtain this result, adult skin cells were collected, and « reprogrammed » to become germ
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If confirmed, this is a world first that offers hope to infertile men to have more children one day thanks to reproductive health. For the first time, complete human sperm would have been obtained by culturing in vitro cells taken in the testes of men unable to produce naturally. In healthy men, these stem cells,
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Travelling from New Zealand to use the services of two Mexican surrogate mothers who received the eggs of an Argentinian donor, a homosexual couple finally find themselves stuck in Mexico with three babies. The situation of David and Nicky Leonard Beard is complicated. As the surrogate mothers were already pregnant, they may not be concerned
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