| January 12, 2005 | - Women were freezing their eggs in order to have them fertilized when it's convenient.
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NY Observer
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| December 30, 2004 | - A 67-year-old Romanian woman who had undergone ten years of treatment in fertility clinics announced that she was pregnant with twins.
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Agence France-Presse
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| December 9, 2004 | - Scientists were warning men not to place laptop computers on their laps since overheating the scrotum can reduce fertility.
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BBC
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| October 19, 2004 | - Researchers at Yale University successfully grew human testicular tissue in mice; the goal of the research is to harvest sperm from the tissue so that pre-pubescent cancer victims can preserve their fertility.
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New Scientist
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| July 14, 2004 | - A large survey by the British Ministry of Health of male Gulf War veterans found that they suffer significant fertility problems.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| June 10, 2004 | - Scientists found that women are more likely to have sex when they're fertile.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| May 5, 2004 | - scientists announced that women with large breasts and narrow waists are especially fertile.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 11, 2004 | - The British Medical Association reported that smoking increases the risk of impotence, infertility, cervical cancer, miscarriage, stillbirth, sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, placental complications, and cleft palate.
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New Scientist
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| February 7, 2004 | - It was revealed that two male chinstrap penguins in New York's Central Park zoo have been homosexual lovers for years. They once tried to hatch a rock, and when their keeper gave them a fertile egg to hatch "they did a great job" raising the chick. Scientists, it was noted, have observed homosexuality in more than 450 species.
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Guardian
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| October 17, 2003 | -
Researchers in Atlanta, Georgia, found that overweight men tend to produce sperm with fragmented DNA, which results in low fertility and more frequent miscarriages.
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New Scientist
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| October 14, 2003 | - American doctors revealed that they had made an infertile woman pregnant using nuclear transfer, a technique similar to cloning that involves taking genetic material from the mother's fertilized yet defective egg and putting it in a healthy egg from another woman that lacks a nucleus. The babies that were fashioned using the technique, which is banned almost everywhere but China, where the experiment was carried out, all died before birth.
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Nature.com
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| September 15, 2003 | - A fertility scientist named Panayiotis Zavos announced that he had created human-cow embryos that were theoretically viable but denied that he planned to allow such a hybrid to be implanted in a woman's womb.
"We are not trying to create monsters," he said.
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News.com.au
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| September 11, 2003 | - A leading British fertility expert called for more research on some in vitro techniques and accused doctors of experimenting on children.
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BBC
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| July 16, 2002 | -
A white couple who underwent in vitro fertilization treatment in England gave birth to black twins.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility specialist, claimed that one of his patients was eight weeks pregnant with a human clone.
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| May 22, 2001 | - A Polish biologist proposed a new universal definition of life: “A network of inferior negative feedbacks subordinated to a superior positive feedback.” According to this definition, parasitic DNA, viruses, and cancers are all alive, but prions, individual worker ants, and infertile humans are not.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Up to thirty such children have been bred using a fertility treatment that accidentally resulted in babies with three genetic parents.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Researchers in Texas found that men who sniffed T-shirts in a laboratory were able to tell whether they had been worn by a woman who was fertile; the men described such shirts as smelling “pleasant” or “sexy.”
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| March 20, 2001 | - Two fertility
scientists based in the United States announced that they expected to grow the first human clone within two years.
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