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Lab-grown sperm could spell hope for infertile men
By Kimberley Smith on 24/03/2011 12:59:59
Men suffering from infertility could one day father biological children using sperm grown in a test tube
Test-tube sperm may soon offer the chance for infertile men to father their own biological children. Scientists have discovered a way of growing sperm from testicular cells that can fertilise an egg.Testicular tissue was taken from mice and grown
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Would you pick your sperm donor by his fashion sense?
By Kimberley Smith on 26/07/2011 13:23:54
Donation clinic creates online brochure to help women choose their baby’s biological dad from personality traits, dress sense and hobbies
The London Sperm Bank is creating an online brochure of sperm donors to help infertile couples and single women choose the characteristics of their baby’s biological father.“They can access the catalogue from home and make their choices online
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Simple hormone test predicts how long women remain fertile
By Amanda Pauley on 08/08/2011 12:22:37
New research allows experts to measure how fast a woman’s biological clock is ticking and when she’ll no longer be able to conceive
For the first time, doctors can measure how fast a woman’s biological clock is ticking, and predict when she is likely to start the menopause.Researchers have been charting the levels of the vital fertility anti-Mullerian hormone (AHM) in women
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Spanish embryo adoption programme – is it a good idea?
By Cassandra Kempster-Roberts on 22/07/2010 14:05:41
A fertility clinic in Spain is in the headlines for running an embryo adoption scheme that wouldn’t be allowed here in the UK.
the clinic. Spanish anonymity rules also mean any children born from the adopted embryos can’t trace their biological parents, or be traced themselves.The scheme has been running since 2004 at the clinic, called the Institut Marques on Barcelona’s outskirts
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Elton John’s baby to have paternity test
By Kimberley Smith on 28/04/2011 13:29:44
Baby Zachary WILL find out if he’s the son of Elton John or David Furnish
Elton John has announced that his baby with partner David Furnish will undergo a DNA test to determine which of the couple is his biological dad. But the 64-year-old star has stressed that the result is unimportant to the family and is entirely
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Infertility breakthroughs update
By Clio FitzHerbert on 03/02/2010 11:07:52
We investigate the latest scientific discoveries that could help infertility
to create human sperm and are a step closer to producing sperm and eggs from stem cells. Watch this space…Test that reads your biological clockSoon you’ll be able to take a test to find out how many childbearing years you have left. The DNA test being
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Sperm cells made from female embryo
By Susie Boone on 23/12/2010 06:50:14
Amazing scientific breakthrough may allow female couples to have their own children
Scientists have managed to create basic sperm cells out of female embryonic stem cells. This means that in the future two women may be able to have their own biological children, without the need for a man!The researchers from the University
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Key to night sleeping: more daylight
By Laura Lee Davies on 04/06/2006 01:01:52
Allowing babies to sleep or rest awake during the day, without making a room dark could help night sleeping.
and 12 weeks. Parents were given a light monitor to carry with the child at all times, and asked to keep a diary of sleep and crying.Developing the biological clockDr Harrison believes this link between daylight and night sleeping could be down
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Elton John shows off his cute mini-me son!
By Kimberley Smith on 28/10/2011 15:16:45
Surely all paternity questions are answered with this adorable photo…
monochrome Union Jack print, as he left a swish New York hotel with his daddies.But what we’re more interested in is that little face! Elton and David claim not to have a clue which of them is Zachary’s biological dad, despite rumours of a paternity test
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IVF mix-up baby given back
By Kimberley Smith on 13/05/2010 15:36:43
‘Wrong’ baby implanted into mum returned
A baby born to the wrong mum after an IVF mishap was returned to his biological parents this week. The fertility clinic mistakenly implanted the wrong embryo into patient, Carolyn Savage.Given the choice of terminating the pregnancy or handing over
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