We’re taking a break over the holiday period and will be back on 3rd January to welcome in the new year, keeping you up to date with news and views on egg, sperm and embryo donation. Have a wonderful holiday! Laura, Pip, Laura, Mark, Cathy, Ruth, Kriss and Richard – the NGDT Chair, National Coordinator …
Monthly Archive: December 2010
Dec
27
Dec
20
What makes men happy: could it be sperm donation?
Robert Crampton recently wrote an article in The Times on what makes men happy. His point? As a society we are richer, more entertained and more comfortable than we’ve ever been. Yet men, especially in their 30s, just aren’t finding any satisfaction in all of that. He comments: We eat more, drink more, watch more …
Dec
13
Laptops can damage your sperm?
Not only do sperm donors have to abstain from sex just before donating and limit their alcohol intake, recent research suggests they need to think twice before cosying up to their laptop. It’s well known that sperm is sensitive to heat – that’s why testicles are outside the body. Researchers at the State University of …
Dec
06
NGDT Patron receives Nobel Prize for medicine
Professor Robert Edwards, who pioneered the development of IVF along with Patrick Steptoe, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine. He began to study human fertility in 1960. In 1968 he successfully fertilised a human egg outside the body, and began to collaborate with Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologist and expert in laparoscopy. Together …