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...re DNA data have becomeavailable. But the study of infertility has lagged. "The very idea that infertility could be geneticseemed not all that logical," said Page. "Most people didn't get beyond the idea of ...... the egg using an innovative procedureadapted from infertility clinics called intracytoplasmic sperm injection or...eps may be necessary to improve the safety of this infertility therapy. Recently, experimental gene therapy trials in humans resulted in the tragic death of an Ar...Scientists link gene to uterine dysfunction
...see whether there is any connection between female infertility in humans and CENP-B dysfunction....Sperm counts unchanged over 50 years
...n, the men were partners of women who were seeking infertility treatment. Examining total sperm counts and semen abnormalities, the investigators found that of the half who showed some sperm abnormality, based on World Health Organization criteria, 52% had sperm that were borderline low in mortality; 18% had abn...The reproductive medicine revolution
...ible causes of cancer of the womb how a certain infertility condition may predict an early menopause new con... 'gold standard' treatment in cases of unexplained infertility when should couples be refused IVF how best to help overweight women become fertile assisted r...UCSF researchers find evidence of faulty DNA repair in some infertile men
...d Physiology. "The conclusion is that some male infertility may be related to a larger problem of defective DN...essor of urology. "The implications are that maybe infertility is not a minor problem. Maybe there is a very good reason for men to be infertile." Of all couple...European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology conference, Bologna, Italy, 25-28 June
...le causes of cancer of the womb, how a certain infertility condition may predict an early menopause, new concerns about the use of some types of HRT in women with breast cancer, new world-first keyhole technique for surgery of the womb will be quicker, safer and reduce need for hysterecto...Unexplained infertility -- the way forward in the fog
...ree-quarters of couples suffering from unexplained infertility will probably conceive from treatment if doctors f...e in six couples worldwide experience some form of infertility problem and in about5-10% of these no apparent cause can be found. Professor Soules, director of th...Putting medical research on-line to give patients the information they need
... medical journals to find out what was causing her infertility and repeated miscarriages will next week tell some... and who the leading researchers in the fields of infertility and miscarriage were. Ultimately this lead to a cure." Jean's access to publicly available research ...Disposable nappies may explain the increase in male infertility
...isposable nappies may explain the increase in male infertility over the past 25 years, suggests a study in the...raception in men. The subsequent risk of adult infertility in boys whose testicles fail to descend at the normal age is thought to be attributable to increa...Treatment protects mouse ovaries from radiation therapy
...h of oocytes, resulting in premature menopause and infertility among many women and young girls who are treated for cancer. In previous research, Tilly's team at the MGH Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology had shown that oocytes were destroyed by chemotherapy through a particular cell-death pathway involvin...Low frequency EMF damages mice ovarian follicles
...ut it would seem prudent to investigate. But human infertility is very complex and many factors can combine to reduce fertility, and in every woman these factors are likely to be different."...Tissue proteolysis and male infertility
...fects in sperm development. Remarkably, human male infertility is also associated with a lack of PCI in the seminal fluid normally a rich source of this proteinase inhibitor in both humans and mice. Uhrin and coworkers propose that the absence of PCI perturbs the balance of endogenous proteinases and proteinase...Human reproductive success tied to mitochondrial organization in eggs
...rick Davis and Colorado Reproductive Endocrinology infertility specialist Dr. Sam Alexander, appeared in the December issue of the prestigious monthly journal Human Reproduction. "I believe the take-home message is that these findings may help us determine the embryo quality at an earlier stage," said Dr. Alexan...... taking advantage of a womans natural cycle during infertility treatment instead of routinely using drugs to stim...n tubes, or those couples where the reason for the infertility is inexplicable. It would not be suitable for women who dont ovulate or who have very erratic menstr...US and Japanese scientists develop new test for male infertility
...icine has made a major advance in testing for male infertility that could prevent women seeking fertility treatme...tibodies against ubiquitin to screen sperm from 17 infertility patients and two fertile donors by microscopy and flow cytometry. They discovered high levels of ubi...More help for infertile women with polycystic ovary syndrome
...to treat patients with type 2 diabetes. Women with infertility due to PCOS who were resistant to clomiphene citrate were randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a control group. Each patient in the experimental group received 500 mg of metformin three times a day for seven weeks. She then continued ...Darwinian evolution of reproductive proteins in mammals
...have at least one practical application concerning infertility and also could help explain how new species evolve... help us to understand the molecular basis of some infertility problems. For example, the rapid evolution of the ZP3 protein opens the possibility that sperm/egg i......ute. The finding also raises the speculation that infertility due to low sperm production may be an X-linked dis...he X chromosome plays a role in some forms of male infertility that results from low sperm counts. Thus far, researchers have combed the Y chromosome looking for ...Presbyterians vote in favor of fetal, embryonic, and stem cell research
... vitro fertilization that are no longer needed for infertility treatment. Research on Tissue Resulting from Abort... while the life of embryonic tissue resulting from infertility treatment must be terminated. The morality of ending the life of embryos rests on how one views the ...