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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
to be identified but children born from donations are able to trace their biological parents once they turn 18.Also in the news:Easy ways to improve his fertility naturallyThe one thing you should do when you come off the pillJennifer Aniston WILL have babies
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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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Study encourages active pregnancies
By Sarah Lawson on 26/11/2007 01:37:08
New research suggests that women who are more active during pregnancy give birth to children who are more healthily active
, however, that the reason for this is not biological, but that these women, who continued to be active after they had their children, were leading by example, which naturally encouraged their children to be more active.There was also a small link
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Research links older dads with autistic children
By Susan Lawson on 05/09/2006 01:42:39
Couples where the father is over 40 when the woman conceives are six times more likely to have autistic children, according to new study.
and their socio-economic backgrounds.Men over 40 were found to be six times more likely to father autistic children than men under 30 years old.Much is usually made of the woman's 'biological clock', but this study links a man's age to the child's health. (Some
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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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BBC’s Kate Silverton pregnant after failed IVF
By Jo Ridgway on 09/05/2011 15:09:15
After thinking she’d never be a mum, news reader announces she is four months pregnant
unexpected – but lovely news just recently…I am pregnant!” Tweeted Kate.While Kate conceived naturally, she had given up hope of having children after two years of trying IVF treatment.“Ooh that felt odd to announce! We gave up hope of having a biological
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Sex And The City star becomes a mum
By Joanna Harvey on 10/10/2011 09:58:36
Life imitates art as actress becomes a mum to a baby girl, after adopting just like her SATC character
for children and her desire to become a mum, either biologically or through adoption."I would love to have children. I would love to adopt. And I would still like to find a man and have a baby with him. I haven't given up," Kristin said, though she added
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Breastfeeding linked to lower diabetes risk
By ThinkBaby on 24/11/2005 10:41:37
US study shows that risk reduction for diabetes holds for breastfeeding mums, not just baby
with several children, the study also showed that with each extra year of breastfeeding the diabetes risk was further reduced. Unfortunately for mums who develop gestational diabetes, the Harvard team found that their risk for type II diabetes wasn't reduced
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93% of men think being a dad is the most significant role
By Kyrsty Hazell on 12/07/2010 14:25:06
Survey reveals that a growing number of men are desperate to become dads, creating a nation of ‘Brokes’ (broody blokes)
.“Feeling broody allows a man not only to assert his masculinity biologically wanting to continue the species, but the feeling also enforces his validity,” relationship expert Susan Quilliam said in an interview with the magazine.The increasing number of women
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