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Egg Donor Australia: Cost And Fees

If you cannot conceive with your own eggs, you may be exploring egg donor options in Australia. Of course, before making a decision, you’ll want to understand the cost and fees associated with this fertility treatment. When comparing costs, one thing to consider is whether you’ll be using fresh eggs or frozen eggs. Some intended Egg Donor Australia: Cost And Fees

Anonymous Sperm Donation to Become a Thing of the Past?

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While anonymous sperm donation has been scrapped in the UK and Australia, it is still practiced in other countries including France and Spain. However, as a recent article in Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper shows, maintaining anonymity may not actually be possible anymore. The reason: the rise of genetic testing companies. According to Israeli law, sperm Anonymous Sperm Donation to Become a Thing of the Past?

Do Sleep Disorders Affect Fertility?

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Approximately 10% of women experience problems when trying to get pregnant. Ovulation disorders, (such as PCOS), hormonal imbalances, structural abnormalities (i.e. blocked falloian tubes) and harmful habits (i.e. smoking and alcohol abuse) are well known causes of infertility. Researchers from Taiwan believe they have discovered another factor. Previous research has already documented a connection between Do Sleep Disorders Affect Fertility?

Fertility Experts to Use an Obstacle Course to Select the Best Sperm for IVF

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Scientists from Stanford University have devised a special “obstacle course” that will allow fertility specialists to locate the best sperm for IVF, thus increasing patients’ odds of conceiving. The 14 mm-long device named SPARTAN (Simple Periodic Array for Trapping And isolatioN) contains three-dimensional posts spermatozoa must navigate around. The fastest finishers are then collected to Fertility Experts to Use an Obstacle Course to Select the Best Sperm for IVF

Scientists Close in on Artificial Sperm

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Presently, the only means by which IVF patients suffering from certain types of male-factor infertility and lesbian couples can achieve a pregnancy is sperm donation. This, however, might change, thanks to the efforts of specialists from Cambridge University, who are working on creating artificial sperm. Scientists have already created a healthy litter of mice from Scientists Close in on Artificial Sperm

Could Brain Estrogen Hold the Key to Unexplained Infertility Treatment?

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Up until recently, fertility experts believed that ovulation depended only on the ovaries. That has changed in 2013 following the discovery of estrogens produced by hypothalamus. Now new research that may help treat at least some cases of unexplained infertility has revealed the importance of brain estradiol to the ovulation process. The menstrual cycle is Could Brain Estrogen Hold the Key to Unexplained Infertility Treatment?