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Brits May Create Babies With DNA From 3 People

Proposed move would help parents avoid passing on diseases

(Newser) - Can a baby have three biological parents? Maybe. Britain may allow a controversial technique to create babies using DNA from a mother, father, and a donor. The idea behind it is to help couples from passing on rare genetic diseases. For a woman with faulty mitochondria, scientists take only the...

Study: Menopause All Men's Fault

Male tendency to choose younger mates gave rise to menopause: biologists

(Newser) - If you weren't already blaming the man in your life for those pesky hot flashes, now's the time to start—and you can thank McMaster University researchers for the pleasure. A study by evolutionary geneticists at the Canadian school concludes men's partiality for younger mates made fertility...

Lady in Red? Might Be Fertile
 Lady in Red? 
 Might Be Fertile 
study says
May 28, 2013 2:05 PM CDT

Lady in Red? Might Be Fertile

New study finds women at peak fertility more likely to wear red, pink

(Newser) - Today's entry in the Things You Never Thought to Research category: In a new study, women who were wearing red or pink were more likely to be at the peak of their fertility cycles than those wearing other colors. And not just a little bit more likely, but three...

French Sperm Quality Takes Huge Hit

 French Sperm Quality 
 Takes Huge Hit 
new study
Dec 5, 2012 7:20 AM CST

French Sperm Quality Takes Huge Hit

Concentration of sperm in semen falls 32.3% over 16 years: study

(Newser) - The good news: The male population of France is still fertile. The bad: Its sperm isn't nearly what it once was. A 16-year study of 26,600 of the country's men found their sperm count has sharply fallen, with the number of millions of spermatozoa per milliliter down...

World's Oldest Dad: 96-Year-Old Indian

Ramajit Raghav had first kid at age 94

(Newser) - An Indian man is being called the oldest father in the world after fathering a second child at age 96—two years after having his first son, the Telegraph reports. "We had planned for another baby after my first son was born in 2010," says Ramajit Raghav. "...

Lab-Made Eggs Produce Healthy Mice

Points way to human infertility treatments

(Newser) - A year back, scientists in Japan produced healthy mice from lab-created sperm ; now, they've done the same with lab-made eggs. The project has big implications for humans, potentially paving the way for infertile men and women to have their own offspring. "This is quite a startling feat,"...

Best Season for IVF: Spring
 Best Season for IVF: Spring 
study says
Jul 17, 2012 12:03 PM CDT

Best Season for IVF: Spring

Temps, daylight hours may affect fertility rates

(Newser) - Infertile couples considering in vitro fertilization might do well to develop a little spring fever, suggests a new study out of Brazil. It found that's the season in which fertilization rates are at their highest, reports the Wall Street Journal . Researchers reviewed the fertilization rates of 1,932 women...

Singapore Scientists Invent Remarkable Toilet

It uses 90% less water and turns your, ahem, No. 2 into electricity

(Newser) - Imagine if every time you went the bathroom you did a little good for the planet. That green dream could soon be entirely possible, thanks to a new invention out of Singapore: a toilet system that transforms human droppings into electricity and fertilizer and uses 90% less water per flush...

Smoking, Drinking Doesn't Hurt Your Sperm

Study suggests a lousy lifestyle won't hurt fertility chances

(Newser) - A study by British researchers seems to upend some standard medical advice for men: They found that smoking, heavy drinking, doing drugs, and being overweight doesn't affect sperm, reports the BBC . Researchers compared samples in about 2,000 men and found "little evidence" that lifestyle has any impact...

Asian Women Who 'Donate' Eggs Can Make Big Money

With demand high, figure $10k to $20k, or more

(Newser) - The old-fashioned law of supply and demand brings this quirk in the world of egg donors: Young Asian women in the US can make way more than others, reports the Los Angeles Times . Demand is so high, they can easily get $10,000 to $20,000, as opposed to about...

Fertility Clinic Boss Likely Fathered 600 Kids

Bertold Wiesner secretly made 20 donations a year for decades

(Newser) - The biologist Bertold Wiesner set up a fertility clinic for high IQ donors in London in the 1940s, helping women conceive 1,500 babies before he died in 1972. But what he did not tell those using his clinic was that he was the clinic's major donor, likely making...

High-Fat Diet Lowers Sperm Count
High-Fat Diet
Lowers Sperm Count
study says
Mar 14, 2012 5:01 PM CDT

High-Fat Diet Lowers Sperm Count

Saturated fats take the biggest toll in study

(Newser) - It's more bad news for fat. A new study shows men who eat large amounts of fatty foods, especially saturated fats common in meat and dairy products, had lower sperm production and concentration. A diet consisting of 37% or more of fat calories or just 13% or more of...

Human Stem Cells Can Make Egg Cells
 Human Stem Cells 
 Can Make Egg Cells 
Research Breakthrough
Feb 27, 2012 4:07 AM CST

Human Stem Cells Can Make Egg Cells

Discovery could lead to major fertility advances, researchers say

(Newser) - Scientists say they have figured out how to get stem cells from human ovaries to generate egg cells, a discovery that could be a major advance for fertility medicine, reports the New York Times . The Massachusetts General Hospital researchers employed a technique first used on mice ovaries that marks the...

New Lending Boom: 'Fertility Finance'

Doctors fear predatory lending for in vitro procedures

(Newser) - Poor economy or not, families want children—and with bank credit tight, a specialized industry is reaping the benefits. "Fertility finance" firms provide loans for in vitro fertilizations, which regularly cost more than $20,000. The business looks set to soar this year, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal...

New Home Test Checks Sperm Count

It's the first kit to win FDA approval

(Newser) - If you've ever questioned your sperm count but weren't thrilled with the idea of dropping by a clinic, worry no longer: For the first time, you can get an FDA-approved home test. The $30 to $40 SpermCheck Fertility Home Sperm Test, available at CVS.com and Walgreens.com,...

Contraceptive Sperm Zap in the Works

Sound waves in sensitive area cut sperm production

(Newser) - Researchers say they have found what could be a cheap, reliable, and long-lasting form of male birth control, although it involves zapping the testicles with ultrasound. A study on rats found that sound waves slowed sperm production to levels that would cause infertility in humans, making ultrasound a "promising...

Chinese Lust to Have &#39;Dragon&#39; Baby
Chinese Lust to Have 'Dragon' Baby
Jan 23, 2012 3:50 AM CST

Chinese Lust to Have 'Dragon' Baby

Infants born this year will be lucky, successful, wanna-be parents believe

(Newser) - The dragon is one of the luckiest and most powerful signs in the Chinese zodiac, and people born in the year of the dragon—which runs from today to Feb. 9, 2013—are supposed to be strong and successful. So many Chinese and Chinese-Americans are going to extraordinary lengths to...

Scientists Turn Stem Cells Into Working Sperm

Researchers see hope for infertile men

(Newser) - Researchers have managed to produce sperm cells from embryonic stem cells—and for the first time, the sperm worked, resulting in healthy baby mice. Researchers in Japan mixed the embryonic stem cells with certain proteins and hormones. They converted the resulting cells into germ cells, which they implanted in the...

Japan Frets Over Sexless Teens
Japan Frets Over
Sexless Teens
Jan 14, 2011 6:30 AM CST

Japan Frets Over Sexless Teens

A third of young men not interested in sex, survey finds

(Newser) - Japanese people just aren't having enough sex, laments the head of the country's family planning association. A full 36% of Japanese men aged 16 to 19 say they're uninterested in or averse to sex, according to a recent survey. That's 19% more than just two years ago, and some 59%...

IVF Test Triples Birth Success
 IVF Test Triples Birth Success 
Oct 27, 2010 6:10 PM CDT

IVF Test Triples Birth Success

And could spare us future Octomoms

(Newser) - A new procedure in the trial phase makes a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization three times more likely to have a healthy baby, the Daily Mail reports. The test analyzes prospective embryos for chromosomal abnormalities, choosing a healthy specimen to implant into the womb and raising the success rate from...

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