Women are choosing to freeze their eggs to gain time to find the right partner rather than to pursue their careers, new research suggests. Based on interviews with 31 heterosexual women who had frozen their eggs for non-medical reasons, researchers discovered that the greatest motivation was because the women said they had not found the right
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Episona Inc., an epigenetics data company focused on improving outcomes in reproductive health, announced today the launch of Seed, an innovative new male fertility test, at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Scientific Congress& Expo. Seedis the first product on the market to evaluate epigenetic changes on DNA to predict the risk for male factorinfertility
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A 62-year-old woman who announced she was eight months pregnant with her third child last month has given birth to a healthy girl. Lina Alvarez’s daughter – who she has given the same first name – was delivered by Caeserean section yesterday. She was born two weeks ahead of schedule after the Spanish doctor was
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The world’s first baby has been born using a new “three person” fertility technique, New Scientist reveals. The five-month-old boy has the usual DNA from his mum and dad, plus a tiny bit of genetic code from a donor. US doctors took the unprecedented step to ensure the baby boy would be free of a
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A medical team in Greece claims to have found a way to reverse menopause, by “rejuvenating” the ovaries, thereby extending the window in which a woman can have kids. The reproductive period normally ends at menopause, which in Canada hits on average at age 51. This is the time when a woman stops menstruating (i.e. releasing an
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What many have long suspected, has been scientifically confirmed — women’s high stress reduces their probability of conception. Scientists found that women who reported feeling more stressed during their ovulatory window were approximately 40-percent less likely to conceive during that month than other less stressful months. Similarly, women who generally reported feeling more stressed than
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A growing number of single Chinese women going abroad for their eggs frozen to keep their options open and control their pace of life, reported Wednesday an article in the New York Times . Over the last three years, demand for such services has recorded an annual growth of 10-15% in the US. Most clients
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Although it’s long been known that fraternal twins run in families, researchers say they’ve just pinpointed two genes that seem to be associated with having such twins. Fraternal twins occur when two separate eggs are fertilized with two separate sperm, creating two genetically unique children in the same pregnancy. One gene variant — called FSHB
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