Scientists in Germany have discovered a way to ‘grow’ sperm outside of the body in a laboratory, in what some are claiming is a major breakthrough in the treatment of male infertility...
We need more sperm donors. Why? Not only do we have more patients than ever who need donor sperm to achieve a family of their own, but did you know that not many men have the right quality of sperm to be a donor? Donor sperm has to be ‘super sperm’...
The HFEA’s proposed new compensation amounts for both egg and sperm donors provoked debate when it was announced recently, following extensive public consultation on the whole issue of sperm and egg donors...
There’s still a common misconception that the number of egg and sperm donors have decreased since the law removed anonymity in 2005. However, this isn’t the case as HFEA official figures s...
One of the reasons some men need to use a sperm donor to have a family is because of infertility caused by cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.
Now a new technique developed in the USA could help some men regain their fertility, despite undergoing cancer treatment in the past...
Imagine a friend told you they had fathered a baby. Imagine they then told you they didn’t know who the mother was, and wouldn’t be involved in raising the child at all – that’s another man’s job. That they’d become a sperm donor...
A recent article in the news, written by a single woman who wanted to get pregnant using donor sperm, claimed that is was difficult to get British donated sperm from UK fertility clinics.
Since the l...
An interesting poll last month revealed that the ideal celebrity sperm donor according to women would be a cross between George Clooney for his looks, Stephen Fry for his intellect and David Beckham f...
You may have heard me on BBC Radio Manchester’s Beswick at Breakfast show last week, when I was invited to the studio to talk about people’s attitudes to sperm donating and anonymity.
This is bec...
We’re always told that exercise is good for you, but could your choice of sport be damaging your fertility? New research appears to suggest that men who cycle for more than five hours a week have fewer and less active sperm than men who don’t exercise at all. Over 2,200 men who were all attending fertility clinics were surveyed in the Boston University study, with each giving a sperm sample for testing...