A personalised predictor model could help women decide whether their next cycle of IVF is going to succeed, say US researchers. A team from Stanford University in California developed the model using clinical data from a patient's previous failed IVF
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-www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10683203 +++++ [Posted on 22/07/2010 7:46:30 AM;862] KW=Pregnancy Rates/Outcome/Model/Prediction/
Conclusions For the first time, our study shows that in vitro fertilization associated with embryo culture strongly modify the placental expression profile, long after embryo manipulations, meaning that the stress of artificial environment is memoriz
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This work demonstrates the conservation of a reproductive protein throughout eumetazoa, its predominant testis-biased expression in diverse bilaterian species, and conservation of a male gametogenic requirement in mice. This shows an ancient gametoge
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-www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/jour+++++ [Posted on 17/07/2010 11:15:45 AM;857] KW=FertAid Mail/Qanda/Sperm/Genetics/
A gene involved in the production of sperm is shared by almost all living animals, including sea anemones, worms, insects, marine invertebrates, fish and humans. The finding suggests the ability to produce sperm arose just once, 600 million years ag
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-www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/primordial-sper+++++ [Posted on 17/07/2010 11:12:51 AM;856] KW=Fertaid/Sperm/genetics/
Researchers at the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick, in northern and central England, say the chicken must have come first as the formation of eggs is only possible thanks to a protein found in the chicken’s ovaries.
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CONCLUSION: This paper provides an update on the management of breast cancer in young women and is targeted at reproductive medicine specialists and gynaecologists.
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CONCLUSIONS: All the available reversible contraceptive methods can generally be used by women at risk of HIV infection and by HIV-infected women. Further studies are needed to investigate the safety and efficiency of hormonal contraception in women
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CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis provides compelling evidence for a significant negative effect of cigarette smoking upon clinical outcomes of ART and should be presented to infertility patients who smoke cigarettes in order to optimize success rates.
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This meta-analysis provides compelling evidence for a significant negative effect of cigarette smoking upon clinical outcomes of ART and should be presented to infertility patients who smoke cigarettes in order to optimize success rates.
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is considering lifting its age limit for free IVF on the National Health Service (NHS), as part of a full review of its guidelines. Instead, women would be offered free IVF on the NHS i
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When ovaries from young mice were transplanted into aging females, the old mice lived longer and changed their reproductive behaviour, scientists from Japan have found. The findings raise the question of whether a similar effect may be seen in women
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Babies born after in vitro maturation of ooctyes (IVM), an assisted reproductive technology (ART), seem to be larger and to have more complicated births. Researchers led by Dr Peter Sjöblom from Nottingham University's NURTURE IVF clinic found the a
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Scientists have discovered a genetic mutation that may make some women less likely to respond to the ovarian stimulating hormones used in fertility treatment.
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Testicular tissue from pre-pubescent boys has been successfully modified to early sperm cells. Belgian researchers isolated and froze immature testicular tissue from two pre-pubescent boys
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An operation designed to preserve womens fertility before they have cancer treatment might also extend their lifespan, doctors have speculated. Cancer therapy can leave women infertile, but some patients have had ovary transplants afterwards to rest
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-www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jun/29/ovary-trans+++++ [Posted on 5/07/2010 9:00:30 AM;844] KW=FertAid Mail/Qanda/Ovarian/Transplant/
Overweight women undergoing fertility treatment have double the risk of miscarriage of normal weight women, a UK study says. More than a third of overweight and obese women had a miscarriage compared with one in five of normal weight women, a fertil
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Doctors are a step closer to accurately predicting the age at which a woman will hit the menopause. A 12-year Iranian study of 266 women found it was possible to pinpoint the age of menopause by measuring levels of a hormone called AMH.
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Women in their late 30s are freezing eggs because they are still hunting for Mr Right, research suggests. A study of women at a Belgian clinic found half wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off finding a partner, a fertility conference
Women who drink during pregnancy may be damaging the future fertility of their sons, research suggests. In a study of almost 350 young men, sperm levels were a third lower in those whose mothers had drunk more than four drinks a week during pregnanc
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