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Fertility Rates Are Now Falling in Half the World’s Countries
Birth in Reverse People just aren't making babies like they used to. This week, The Lancet published a new report on global fertility rates from 1950 to 2017. Based on their research, people across the...
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A Smuggler Just Got Caught With a Live Human Embryo in His Luggage
Pre-Emptive Kidnapping A Malaysian man was arrested on Saturday as he tried to smuggle a live human embryo into India through Mumbai's airport. The smuggler, Partiban Durai, told police that this was...
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Infertile Couple Gives Birth to "Three-Parent Baby"
Happy Birthday On Tuesday, a couple gave birth to what researchers are calling a "three-parent baby" — giving new hope to infertile couples across the globe. After four cycles of in vitro fertilization...
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The American Birth Rate Just Fell to a 32-Year Low
Childfree Nation On Wednesday, the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released its provisional birth rate data for 2018. And based on...
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Eating Crap as a Teen Can Permanently Affect Men’s Fertility
Permanent Damage Teen guys with dreams of one day having kids might want to rethink their after-school snack. A new Harvard University-led study found that eating a "Western diet" – one packed with...
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New Operation Could Delay Menopause for 20 Years, Says Clinic
Menstruation can be such a pain that you might think anyone who gets periods would be counting down the days until menopause, the time in life when their body starts producing lower levels of sex...
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DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence
Questionable startups are claiming to be able to determine how smart a frozen IVF embryo will become if carried to term, and parents are taking the bait. Genomic Prediction, the most prominent of these...
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Researchers Say Earth Is Headed for "Jaw-Dropping" Population Decline
People around the globe are having way fewer babies. By the year 2100, that might turn into a pretty big problem for humanity — rather than the relief one might expect. If they aren't already, dozens...
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For the First Time, Scientists Grow Human Sperm Stem Cells in Lab
For the first time, scientists have been able to grow spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), which are the cells that eventually develop into fully-fledged sperm, in a laboratory environment. It's too soon...
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Blood Transfusions Helped a Menopausal Woman Get Pregnant
In an unusual medical experiment, a menopausal woman and three perimenopausal women all got pregnant after they were given transfusions of their own blood. It's a fascinating study, suggesting that...
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Study: Catching Coronavirus Makes it Harder for Men to Have Kids
Just in case the coronavirus still wasn't ominous enough, now there's evidence that it's even capable of reducing male fertility and damaging sperm cells. It turns out that COVID-19 is capable of...
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Humans Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Procreate, Scientist Warns
An environmental medicine professor is sounding the alarm on humanity’s rapidly declining fertility rates — and she says chemicals in plastics are largely to blame. Shanna Swan, professor of...
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Scientists Say That Declining Sperm Count Research Is Nonsense
A group of scientists have called into question recent research that sounded the alarm bells on declining sperm count. Researchers at Harvard’s GenderSci Lab took a critical look at the 2017 study that...
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Get Ready For The Future With The Modern Fertility Hormone Test
As we learn more about the body, hormones are offering new insights into not just how we become adults, but how we gain or lose weight, our fertility, and even how we age. Understanding your hormonal...
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Air Pollution May Be Lowering Sperm Counts, Scientists Say
Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that breathing polluted air might cause lowered sperm counts. In a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives, the...
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Scientists Say Massive Drop in Sperm Count Could "Threaten Mankind’s Survival”
Sperm counts appear to be declining all over the planet— and some scientists think it could be yet another mortal threat to our survival as a species. A new meta-analysis published in the journal Human...
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Twins Born From Donated Embryos That Were Frozen in 1992
On Halloween, a couple in Portland welcomed their twin son and daughter — born from donated embryos that were frozen 30 years ago, in 1992. As CNN reports, Portland, Oregon couple Rachel and Phillip...
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First Babies Born After Being Conceived By Robot
A Spanish startup has built a sperm-injecting robot that can be controlled using a PlayStation controller. The team successfully used it to fertilize human eggs, eventually resulting in the birth of...
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Grimes Says She Loves Being Mansplained To
Grimes A-Changin' Electronic artist and AI enthusiast Claire "Grimes" Boucher has taken a cultural stance that just might explain her decision to procreate with Elon Musk. "I enjoy mansplaining,"...
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Former Harvard Professor Accused of Inseminating Patient With His Own Sperm
A former Harvard Medical School professor has been accused by a former patient of inseminating her with his own sperm — and without her knowledge — during an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure. In...
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