This document provides the latest recommendations for evaluation of potential sperm, oocyte, and embryo donors as well their recipients, incorporating recent information about optimal screening testing sexually transmitted infections, genetic diseases, psychological assessments. revised incorporates from US Centers Disease Control Prevention, Food Drug Administration, American Association Tissu...

Embryo donation has drawn increasing attention as an alternative to using frozen embryos for stem cell research and as a method of providing infertile couples with an opportunity to realize their goal of becoming parents. Although embryo donation offers significant advantages for recipient (“adoptive”) couples, it is unclear what would happen if a couple who had adopted frozen embryos subsequen...

BACKGROUND Assisted reproductive techniques have been used in China for more than 20 years. This study investigates the attitudes of surplus embryo holders towards embryos storage and donation for medical research. METHODS A total of 363 couples who had completed in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment and had already had biological children but who still had frozen embryos in storage were inv...

OBJECTIVE To describe a case of monozygotic triplet pregnancy following egg donation and the transfer of a single frozen-thawed embryo. DESIGN Case report. SETTING District general hospital and regional department of fetal medicine in northeast England. PATIENT(S) A 38-year-old woman with a 2-year history of primary infertility due to severe endometriosis and poor ovarian reserve who conc...

Including infertility treatments, sperm donations is a technique in combination with advances in medical knowledge with sperm, Oocyte and after the specified time and process, transfer the embryo into the uterus of female applicants. With the passage of the Act in 2003 and its implementation in 1383, there is no legal problem in this regard. However, many questions about this issue in terms of ...

In vitro fertilisation is now an established technique for treating some forms of infertility, yet it remains ethically controversial. New developments, such as embryo donation and embryo freezing, have led to further discussion. We briefly discuss the ethical aspects of IVF, focusing on the issues of resource allocation, the 'unnaturalness' of the procedure, the moral status of the embryo, sur...

BACKGROUND This article reports on an investigation of the views of IVF couples asked to donate fresh embryos for research and contributes to the debates on: the acceptability of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, the moral status of the human embryo and embryo donation for research. METHODS A hypothesis-generating design was followed. All IVF couples in one UK clinic who were asked t...

Treatment of same-sex couples using infertility therapies has become more acceptable over the years, but remains controversial. In December 2005, two law changes came into force in the UK that impact same-sex couples. Firstly, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 acknowledged legal relationships between same-sex couples; and secondly, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 allowed same-sex couples to ado...