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5 MILLION IVF BABIES. "Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide." http://www.dukeupress.edu/Biological-Relatives/ View in LinkedIn

TRULY DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION: NON-FETAL ADULT SOURCES of pluripotent stem cells is a huge game-changer across the board, for fertility, for therapeutics, and much more. These induced pluripotent stem cells came from work by Professor Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John Gurden who won the Nobel Prize in 2012 for their work. http://lnkd.in/dMsngrG View in LinkedIn

SPERM AND EGG DONORS UNEQUAL. "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) figures show there were 480 new sperm donors registered in 2010, alongside 1,258 egg donors, compared with 323 sperm donors and 1,241 egg donors in 2000." http://lnkd.in/btSmSVK View in LinkedIn

LARGE FERTILITY INDUSTRY. "Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from one person’s body to another individual’s body is now the basis of a multi-billion dollar fertility industry." http://lnkd.in/b4-nyxp View in LinkedIn

HOT DATES IN DONOR INSEMINATION. "In the USA laws were passed (1970s) which made DI legal and allowed the husband to be treated as the legal father of the child. However, in the UK this did not happen until 1990 ... the development of IVF in 1978 ... egg donation was first performed in 1984 and embryo donation in 1985." http://www.donorunknown.com/history View in LinkedIn

DONOR INSEMINATION - THE LONG ROAD TO ACCEPTANCE. "The idea of applying artificial insemination to human propagation was difficult enough for turn-of-the-century society to accept: to use the sperm of a man other than the woman's husband was scandalous." http://www.cryobank.com/Learning-Center/Sperm-Banking-101/Sperm-Banking-History/ View in LinkedIn

rBGH (rBST ) RECOMBINANT BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN or BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE was forced out of the dairy industry practices by unhappy consumers, and this could happen in the future with current hormonal manipulation of dairy herds. Clearly, the experience of rBGH has set a tone in consumer trust for decades to come. View in LinkedIn

THIRD PARTY REPRODUCTION "refers to the use of eggs, sperm, or embryos that have been donated by a third person (donor) to enable an infertile individual or couple (intended recipient) to become parents." http://lnkd.in/bp3BDMr View in LinkedIn

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY may be a good starting point to predict the future of human reproduction at least from a technical reproductive perspective, because changes in the last 100 years have been very dramatic, including artificial insemination, hormone manipulation, embryo transfers and cloning. View in LinkedIn

HUMAN SPERM BANKS. "Some sperm banks enable recipients to choose the sex of their child ... the chances of being able to select the gender of a child are held to be considerably increased. Sex selection is not permitted in a number of countries, including the UK. However, in many parts of the world sperm banks are not allowed to be established or to operate." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_bank View in LinkedIn