Science news articles about 'egg donors'

LONDON, July 27 (UPI) -- A sperm and egg donor shortage in Britain means a ban on paying people to donate should be repealed, the head of the government's fertility watchdog says.

... to one or both of their parents (where the children have been conceived through surrogacy, egg donation or donor insemination) has long been a subject of debate. In the first worldwide study of this ...

... practice is not regulated. "We don't know how many egg donors there are because no official records ... Great Britain, where there is no paid egg donation program, for example, has a tremendous shortage ...

... children with the help of sperm or egg donors and then try to find the donors and also other children conceived ... colleagues recruited 791 parents via the Donor Sibling Registry, a US-based international ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 29 (UPI) -- Beginning next year, scientists in New York state can use taxpayer funds to pay women who donate their eggs for stem cell research, officials said.

... purchase left-over, pre-existing embryos because it is a more cost-effective option than using an egg donor, according to the authors. When asked if selling leftover embryos to other couples should ...

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... For Francisco Egea Cerezuela and his wife, the answer to their dream of having a child was found on the Internet: a Beverly Hills surrogacy and egg-donor agency called B Coming.