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Genetic Diseases

Posted on May 17, 2011 by admin

Blog written by CLI Director of Operations Michelle Ottey, PhD I often talk about heterosexual couples using donor sperm due to male factor infertility, but I do not think I have written about using donor sperm to avoid passing on … Continue reading →

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More sperm facts

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

Blog written by GIVF Compliance Officer Amy Erickson Hagen How long does sperm live? Animal Fertile life of sperm (hours) Mouse 6 Rat 14 Guinea Pig 21-22 Human 24-48 Rabbit 30-32 Sheep 30-48 Cow 28-50 Horse 144 Bat 135 (days) … Continue reading →

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Sperm facts

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

Blog written by GIVF Compliance Officer Amy Erickson Hagen How big are sperm? A sperm cells head is approximately 5 microns in diameter, its tail is approximately 50microns, In total, approximately. 55microns (55 x 10 6 m), that is about … Continue reading →

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Staying in Touch with Older Sperm Donors

Posted on April 27, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Michelle Ottey, PhD, Director of Operations, Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc. Every sperm bank presents a medical profile of some sort for their donors. This profile usually presents the medical and genetic health of the sperm donor and of … Continue reading →

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Recruiting new donors

Posted on April 25, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Laboratory Staff Zachary K. Getting new donors is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Our lab site does an extensive amount of work to recruit new donors. We advertise in professional papers, with private … Continue reading →

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Copper IUDs

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Laboratory Staff Nisha The most recent edition of Fertility and Sterility (March 15th, 2011) published a study on the biocompatibility of a new type of intrauterine device (IUD) that contains cupric ions in mice. Traditionally, non-hormone using … Continue reading →

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We train to be the best

Posted on April 18, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Laboratory Staff Chauntae How do you know we are the best? Because we TRAIN to be the best!! As a supervisor responsible for the majority of staff training, and from my 6 years of experience with the … Continue reading →

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Vegetarian Sperm

Posted on April 13, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Site Manager CB I’ve been in the fertility industry for about 6 years now and have come across many interesting facts that can increase or decrease a man’s specimen quality. A study published in the Molecular and … Continue reading →

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RESOLVE promotes reproductive health

Posted on April 11, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc. Site Manager Amy Erickson Hagen In the Midwest we are fortunate to have open spaces, kind people and weather that keeps the riff raff out. As well as these typically thought of Midwestern terms … Continue reading →

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Beware of ‘Gray Market’ Sperm Donors

Posted on April 7, 2011 by admin

Blog written by Michelle Ottey, PhD, Director of Operations, Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc. We all have choices to make about building our families. Some choose to have children, and some choose to be wonderful aunts and uncles or mentors. If you … Continue reading →

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