New research challenges advice that men should abstain from sex before fertility treatment
...around 6,000 men being investigated or treated for infertility who had abstained from sex for periods up to two w..."Our data challenge the role of abstinence in male infertility treatments. What we have found is not so relevant to ICSI, where only a single sperm is injected int...Don't ban embryo-based research says new chairman of European fertility organisation
...pede progress in understanding the causes of human infertility and damage prospects of new treatments for serious diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. The stem cell controversy has become caught up in proposals by EU Commissioners for an EU-wide directive outlining quality and safety standards for tissu...First proof that polycystic ovarian syndrome is more than twice as common in lesbian women
...ve found the first evidence that a common cause of infertility in women is more prevalent amongst lesbians than heterosexuals[1], and they suggest that the biochemical disorder associated with the condition might contribute to the women's sexual orientation. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the commonest ca...Infertility treatment versus fertility control: the challenges for developing countries
...t they do not channel sufficient resources towards infertility issues and couples are being neglected, an interna...ion and Embryology annual conference that treating infertility in developing countries is difficult due to problems with basic health infrastructures. He said that...Muslims embrace brave new world of IVF
...aused by fertility, an international conference of infertility experts heard today (Tuesday 1 July). Medical anth...many years studying social and cultural aspects of infertility in Egypt and is now working on a male infertility study in Lebanon, said that a number of Sunni Isla...Risk of ectopic pregnancies after IVF declines with age in women with tubal disease
... to have no or fewer abnormalities associated with infertility because it's the man's fertility that is at issue.... tubal disease, which may be contributing to their infertility and which are risk factors for ectopic pregnancies." The study found that when women's Fallopian tub...New technique for sorting sperm could improve fertility treatment
...ow sperm motility could lead to a new approach for infertility treatment, according to University of Michigan Hea...ct sperm viability or quality. About 40 percent of infertility problems are with the male, including low motility. In borderline cases, traditional fertility treat...Mutant gene found to cause early ovarian failure in mice
...e that causes premature ovarian failure, a form of infertility affecting an estimated 250,000 women in the United States. The investigators say the discovery will lead to unique animal models of premature ovarian failure (POF), or early menopause, useful for further studying the poorly understood condition. POF,...Newly invented Endometrial Function Test (EFT®) solves the puzzle of unexplained infertility
...ieved to be the basis of many cases of unexplained infertility in women. A normal healthy endometrium will make m...e EFT can diagnose this problem and help guide the infertility specialist to fix the problem, which in turn will improve the chances of implantation and a successf...US $1.2m grant awarded for impact of stress on eggs and embryos
...e lifestyle choices, or conceived in the course of infertility treatment, remain unanswered and are logistically difficult to resolve," Dr Thompson says. "Our team has shown, using animal models, that the 'microenvironment' surrounding the early embryo can influence subsequent fetal development, even if the chan...Infectious disease study findings presented by University of Pittsburgh scientists
...y clinical tests) PID were twice as likely to have infertility problems as those who did not have PID. "Previous studies have shown that 25 percent of women who have chlamydia or gonorrhea, and 15 percent of women who have bacterial vaginosis, also have subclinical PID," said Dr. Wiesenfeld, who also is an assis...Scientists identify new sperm protein required for fertilization
..., nearly 2.6 million couples have been treated for infertility with about 40 percent of those cases thought to be due to male infertility. Now, a study published in the August 22 issue of Cell identifies a new protein that is required for a sperm to bind to an egg during the process of fertilization. This rese...Research collaboration identifies gene essential to puberty
...ian reproduction. The discovery could lead to new infertility treatments or contraceptive options, among other applications. "It looks like we have found a key genetic gatekeeper of puberty in mice and men," says William Crowley Jr., MD, chief of the MGH Reproductive Endocrine Unit and director of the Harvardw...Danish study finds that taking a long time to conceive is linked to problems at birth
...he association. But, significant associations with infertility still remained. The increased risk of preterm birt...multiparas." The study the largest ever done on infertility and birth outcomes found that it was not only women who had undergone fertility treatment that were...NIH student loan repayment awards increase by 66 percent
...ediatric, healthdisparities, and contraceptive and infertility research.NIH is now accepting applications on line at http://www.lrp.nih.gov . The online application closesDec. 31, 2003. Participants must have a doctoral-leveldegree, devote at least 50% of their time to researchfunded by a nonprofit or government...Genetics mutations resulting in delayed puberty are focus of MCG study
...a small number of children may also lead to better infertility treatment and birth control, says a Medical Colleg...tant for normal puberty so they could be useful in infertility treatment as well. You also could block them and make a contraceptive. So there are a lot of possibi...UT Southwestern researchers' discovery may lead to gene targets for new form of contraceptive
...likely that disruption of CatSper2 would result in infertility in men as well. If a contraceptive drug could be designed that would bind to the protein and block its function, then those sperm cells would be rendered ineffective or infertile." Such an ion channel-blocking contraceptive would likely be fast actin...New understanding of insulin's complexities needed to conquer diabetes
...ther lipids, heart disease, kidney disease, female infertility and neurodegeneration. In their research, White and his colleagues have discovered components of key insulin-controlled signaling pathways. For example, they identified proteins mediating insulin signaling, which are known as insulin receptor substra...Researchers engineer mouse embryonic stem cells to form sperm cell precursors
...entially helping scientists develop treatments for infertility and providing insight into the growth of certain tumors. The researchers, led by George Daley of Children's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Niels Geijsen of Massachusetts General Hospital, also in Boston, report their fi...Mouse embryonic germ cells and male gametes created in the lab
...nfertility, says Geijsen. "A lot of problems with infertility start very early," he says. "Something goes wrong in the germ cell at a very early stage." Geijsen wonders, for example, why they were able to create far more embryonic germ cells than gametes in the lab - what made the germ cells stop developing?...