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Technology Intended to Improve Outcome of Intrauterine Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization Procedures LA JOLLA, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cordex Pharma, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CDXP) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Clinical Trials International, LLC, (CTI), regarding a license to develop and market Cordex's drug candidate, ATPotent(TM). ATPotent(TM) is a novel ATP-based drug candidate designed for in vitro (outside of the human body)...

The birth of a baby conceived from sperm frozen for 21 years may tie the world record for the longest-frozen, viable sperm, U.S. fertility specialists say. Thirty-eight-year-old Chris Biblis of Charlotte, N.C., was treated for leukemia from age 13-18. In 1987, at age 16, his family encouraged him to freeze his sperm, even though there was no treatment for male infertility at the time. It was not until 1992 that the first baby was born from intracytoplasmic sperm injection -- a breakthrough...

IVF innovator introduces alternative to artificial insemination for less than $5,000 LAS VEGAS, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades women struggling to conceive a child usually have had but two stark choices for fertility treatments: the high-tech but high-cost process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), or the much lower-priced alternative of intra-uterine insemination (IUI), also known as artificial insemination - a clinical technique that fertility doctors generally consider a hit-and-miss...

Pet owners with a desire for nostalgia are resorting to the use of frozen sperm to keep certain attributes of their pets alive. Artificial insemination using frozen sperm began in the 1960s when Carrol C. Platz Jr. and colleagues at the University of Oregon created a litter of mixed-breed puppies. Research into the method continued throughout the 1970s, and in the early 1980s, and the American Kennel Club formally endorsed its use. In 2006, the most recent year for which data is available,...

Landmark artificial insemination holds great promise to ensure future of these megaherbivoresThere may be less than 20,000 rhinoceros in the world, with one species perhaps already extinct and another with possibly only four animals remaining in the wild. As the populations of these animals age and become infirm, successful breeding becomes increasingly difficult. In an article scheduled for publication in Theriogenology, An International Journal of Animal Reproduction, researchers from the...

Thomas Beatie, a transgendered American man who was born a woman, is pregnant with his second child, Discovery Health said Thursday. "Pregnant Man," an exclusive documentary about Beatie's first pregnancy, is scheduled to premiere on the television channel Tuesday. "Discovery Health presents the only documentary featuring professional footage of Thomas and his wife, Nancy, through the final weeks of his first pregnancy, the landmark birth of their first child and their eventual return home,"...

ATLANTA, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- National Infertility Awareness Week(R), Oct. 19-25, is a movement to raise awareness about the condition which affects 7.3 million Americans. Metro Atlantans grappling with infertility can consider options available to them that others here have had success. Infertility, which touches both men and women, is defined as the inability to conceive after one year of trying with unprotected intercourse for couples in which the female is younger than age 35 and...

Smithsonian scientists use frozen semen to help save endangered speciesTwo black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian's National Zoo have each given birth to a kit that was sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000. These endangered ferrets"”part of a multi-institutional breeding and reintroduction program"”were artificially inseminated in May with frozen semen from the two deceased males, each giving birth to a kit on June 20 and 21 respectively. The sperm samples were collected and frozen...

By Jane Kirby MANY couples could be wasting their time with pointless fertility treatments, researchers claim. A study shows two common treatments - the drug clomifene citrate and artificial insemination - are no more effective for some than leaving things to nature. The research in five Scots hospitals concluded the treatments gave those couples with unexplained infertility no significantly higher chance of conceiving. One in seven couples in the UK experience infertility and in about...

By Jeremy Laurance Two of the commonest therapies for infertility offered to hundreds of thousands of women each year are worthless and may cause unpleasant side effects, a study has shown. The first treatment is clomifene citrate, a drug believed to correct dysfunction of the ovaries. The second is intra-uterine insemination (IUI), in which a sample of semen is introduced directly into the womb. Both have been offered for decades as the initial treatment for infertility because they are...