19 May 2012 11:26:21
Beached baby whale euthanised - Independent Online
![]() Independent Online | Independent Online By SAPA Rescue workers attend to two Pigmy Sperm Whales (an adult and a juvenile, both female) which washed up 100m apart at Surfers Corner, Muizenberg. Picture: Jeffrey Abrahams Cape Town - The injured pygmy sperm whale which beached at Surfers Corner ... |
19 May 2012 01:31:01
In choosing a sperm donor, a roll of genetic dice - Indian Express
Indian Express In an increasing number or cases, children conceived with donated sperm are struggling with serious genetic conditions inherited from sperm donors. The illnesses include heart defects, spinal muscular atrophy and neurofibromatosis type 1, among others. |
18 May 2012 19:51:50
Flower sex safeguards against dud sperm - Futurity: Research News
![]() Science Codex | Futurity: Research News (Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown) BROWN (US) Discovering how flowers manage the distribution of sperm among female gametes helps biologists explain why they are so widespread. In pollination, hundreds of sperm-carrying pollen grains stick to the stigma ... |
15 May 2012 23:11:10
Sperm count among men 'reduced by exposure to chemicals in the environment' - Daily Mail
![]() BigPond News | Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter Men's sperm count could be reduced by exposure to chemicals in the environment, new research has suggested. A rise in IVF treatments could be down to the effect of chemicals such as cosmetics, detergents and pollutants. - |
15 May 2012 13:49:57
Sperm banks, donors help single women become mothers - 9NEWS.com
![]() 9NEWS.com | 9NEWS.com Instead of waiting for their biological clock to run out, single women head to sperm banks to find the perfect DNA to be their baby's daddy. Diana Still, 43, juggles a successful career as an IT manager and life as a single mother of 5-month-old bundle ... |
15 May 2012 13:10:55
Donated sperm can carry genetic baggage - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune After a depressing series of failures, a doctor finally advised them to find a sperm donor. For more than a year, the Kretchmars carefully researched sperm banks and donors. The donor they chose was a family man, a Christian like them, they were told. |
15 May 2012 10:03:39
Fattening foods impact sperm count and quality - Plain Dealer
![]() Plain Dealer | Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It's been a few weeks since locally originating stories focusing on sperm have graced the pages of this newspaper. On April 1 -- and no, it wasn't an April Fool's joke -- I reported that the Cleveland Clinic had begun offering an ... |
14 May 2012 19:57:44
In Choosing a Sperm Donor, a Roll of the Genetic Dice - New York Times
![]() New York Times | New York Times After a depressing series of failures, a doctor finally advised them to find a sperm donor. For more than a year, the Kretchmars carefully researched sperm banks and donors. The donor they chose was a family man, a Christian like them, they were told. |
08 May 2012 12:05:36
Sperms fight their way to female egg - New York Daily News
![]() Firstpost | New York Daily News London, May 8 A mass of sperms fight their way through the female reproductive tract to fertilise a egg, says a new research which explored the properties that distinguish the tens of cells which make it to the egg from the millions of sperm cells ... |
07 May 2012 13:17:42
Sperm Injection Procedure May Increase Birth Defects - Medscape
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Medscape May 7, 2012 Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is linked to an increased risk for birth defects compared with spontaneous conception, results of a large Australian observational study suggest. The risk appears to be higher for fresh embryo ... |








