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Fertility For Older, Highly Educated Women Has Risen Since The 1990s, According To New Research
An increasing number of highly educated women are opting for families, according to a national study co-authored by a University at Buffalo economist. Qingyan Shang, an assistant professor at UB, says the study uncovers what may be the reversal of a trend by highly educated women...

Rising Infertility And Cancer Rates Possibly Linked To Pharmaceuticals And Household Chemicals
According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), household products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food all contain endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) which may be causing significant increases in diabetes, obesity, cancers and increasing infertility...

Sex Chromosomes Are Here To Stay
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at how genes on sex-linked chromosomes are passed down generations and linked to fertility, using the specific example of the W chromosome in female chickens...

Infertile Couples May Benefit From Study That Reveals Sperm Crawling And Colliding On Way To Egg
Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick have shed new light on how sperm navigate the female reproductive tract, 'crawling' along the channel walls and swimming around corners; with frequent collisions...

Some Forms Of Assisted Reproduction Increase Risk Of Birth Defects
A University of Adelaide study has identified the risk of major birth defects associated with different types of assisted reproductive technology...

Exposing Fetus To Plant Estrogen May Lead To Infertility In Women
A paper published in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press describes the effects of brief prenatal exposure to plant estrogens on the mouse oviduct, modeling the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants...

Key To Fertility In Mammals: Gene Involved In Sperm-To-Egg Binding
Experts from Durham University have identified a new gene that could help the development of fertility treatments in humans in the future. Scientists from Durham University, UK, and Osaka University, Japan, looking at fertility in mice, have discovered for the first time that the gene, which makes a protein called PDILT, enables sperm to bind to an egg, a process essential to fertilisation...

Research May Lead To Treatments For The Complications Of Obesity And Malnutrition
Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor - an essential factor in the regulation of body fat - which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia...

Adolescents With Cancer Concerned About Their Future Reproductive Health
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer have strong concerns about their ability to have children as cancer survivors. They also found that standard health-related quality-of-life survey tools used to elicit answers from teens with cancer did not accurately reflect these concerns...

Frida Kahlo's Infertility - A New Diagnosis
Frida Kahlo's many haunting self-portraits have been studied by experts for decades, have attracted worldwide attention and have sold for millions of dollars at auction. Yet, despite the fact that Kahlo's work focuses largely on anatomy and failed reproduction attempts, relatively little attention has been paid to Kahlo's own body and infertility...

In IVF Preconception Study, 96 Percent Of Women Faced Multiple Lifestyle Issues And Health Risks
Ninety-six per cent of women who attended a preconception clinic before undergoing IVF had three or more lifestyle problems and risk factors, according to a study in the May issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. Half of the obese women lost weight and nearly a third of the smokers decided to quit after receiving advice at the clinic...

Discovery Of Unique Activity Essential For Meiosis
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered a key tool that helps sperm and eggs develop exactly 23 chromosomes each. The work, which could lead to insights into fertility, spontaneous miscarriages, cancer and developmental disorders, is published April 13 in the journal Cell. Healthy humans have 46 chromosomes, 23 from the sperm and 23 from the egg...

Women Cannot Rewind The 'Biological Clock'
Many women do not fully appreciate the consequences of delaying motherhood, and expect that assisted reproductive technologies can reverse their aged ovarian function, Yale researchers reported in a study published in a recent issue of Fertility and Sterility. "There is an alarming misconception about fertility among women," said Pasquale Patrizio, M.D...

Newly Found Protein Helps Cells Build Tissues
Brown University biologists have found a new molecule in fruit flies that is key to the information exchange needed to build wings properly. They have also uncovered evidence that an analogous protein may exist in people and may be associated with problems such as cleft lip, or premature ovarian failure...

Sperm Binding Cut Off By Ovastacin
A study in The Journal of Cell Biology describes how a secreted enzyme helps egg cells avoid being fertilized by more than one sperm. Because polyspermy disrupts embryonic development, oocytes take several steps to ensure they only fuse with a single sperm...