Background: Every day, many children are born by assisted reproductive techniques. For some infertile couples have no other way to have a child except donation. So far, there are too many children are born by donation protocols or surrogacy. As in donation protocols and surrogacy, a third party helps the couple by sharing gamete, embryo or uterus, there can be some social, legal and psychologic...

The two cultivated rice species, Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima, are morphologically alike but are reproductively isolated from each other by hybrid sterility. The hybrid is male sterile but partially female fertile. Backcross experiments were conducted to introduce an alien factor controlling hybrid sterility from O. glaberrima (W025) into O. sativa (T65wx) and examine the genetic basis. An...

OBJECTIVE To investigate symptoms of anxiety and depression in lesbian couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment (ART), and to study the relationship of demographic data, pregnancy outcome and future reproductive plans with symptoms of anxiety and depression. DESIGN Descriptive, a part of the prospective longitudinal 'Swedish study on gamete donation'. SETTING All university clinic...

Dear Editor, Today some infertile couples who want to have children have request for getting gametes which is a confidential process. According to law, no person must know the identity of the gamete providers (1). Confidentiality of information relating to gamete and embryo donation can cause serious ethical problems. In some countries, forming the Bank of gametes and embryos is intended as a w...

OBJECTIVE To study the decision to have a child alone, the experience of gamete donation, the issue of disclosure of the donor link to the child, conception-related health and sociodemographic characteristics of the mothers, children's socioemotional development, and mother-child relationships. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Prior clients of a sperm bank. PARTICIPANT(S) Eleven single w...