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Family Sees 4 Consecutive Generations of Twins

They've applied to Guinness Book of World Records

(Newser) - There may be something in the water in Clevedon, England. Melanie Gwynne is a twin. Her father and his mother, Gwynne's grandmother, are also twins. And last fall, Gwynne became mom to the family's fourth generation of twins—two girls, whose birth was featured on the British TV...

This 46-Year-Old Woman's Baby Set a Record

Belinda Slaughter gave birth via IVF, using her own fresh eggs

(Newser) - A 46-year-old Florida woman became a new mom to a healthy baby boy last year via IVF—and though it's not unheard of for a woman to deliver a baby at her age, what's medically remarkable is that Belinda Slaughter didn't use frozen or donated embryos, but...

Discovered: Sperm's Docking Station

Protein allows sperm to link with egg

(Newser) - Scientists are announcing a breakthrough in the study of fertility. They've learned more about how a sperm cell links to an egg cell, offering hope for future treatments—for both fertility and contraception, Nature reports. Scientists already knew of a protein on the surface of a sperm cell that...

IVF Births Hit Record High
 IVF Births Hit Record High 
Feb 17, 2014 10:41 PM CST

IVF Births Hit Record High

Procedure now accounts for 1.5% of US births

(Newser) - Around 30 years after America's first "test tube baby" was born, enough IVF babies were born in the US in 2012 to fill a medium-sized town, according to a new report from the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology. The organization says its 379 member clinics performed a total...

Doctors&#39; Group to Women: Don&#39;t Freeze Your Eggs
Doctors' Group to Women: Don't Freeze Your Eggs
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Dec 29, 2013 7:00 PM CST

Doctors' Group to Women: Don't Freeze Your Eggs

The technology does not 'guarantee a successful pregnancy,' they warn

(Newser) - Egg freezing has apparently become such a trend that the New York Times last year covered a trend within the trend: parents who help foot the bill for freezing their aging daughters' eggs. But the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have issued a blunt message to women in their...

Divorced Men Should Pay for Wife&#39;s Eggs
Divorced Men Should
Pay for Wife's Eggs
OPINION
Sep 7, 2013 11:52 AM CDT

Divorced Men Should Pay for Wife's Eggs

If they split without kids, he should cover her fertility treatment: Op-ed

(Newser) - Welcome to the new wrinkle in divorce settlements: the wife's eggs. Sarah Elizabeth Richards lays out the increasingly common scenario in the New York Times today: Say a couple gets married with the intention of having kids but divorces years later without having done so, or without having as...

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...

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