A team of Japanese and British scientists has succeeded in producing fertile offspring from sterile mice made with a chromosomal abnormality by using induced pluripotent stem cells, better known as iPS cells, Kyoto University said Friday. The researchers, including professor Michinori Saito of Kyoto University, ...
In mid-December, when news emerged that the number of newborn babies in Japan in 2016 would likely fall below 1 million for the first time since the government started collecting data in 1899, it sparked a renewed debate on how to reverse the downtrend ...
Most major media covered the March 22 Tokyo news conference where Sachiko Kishimoto of the nonprofit organization Oocyte Donation Network (OD-Net) explained how a woman in her 40s had recently given birth to a daughter who had been conceived using the woman's husband's sperm ...
Japanese husbands who have kept silent about the embarrassment of undergoing infertility treatment are swallowing their pride and beginning to speak out. More of them are attending meet-and-greet support groups for men with similar problems, and even a recently published book compiling the various experiences ...
Recent news about a woman with ovarian problems successfully giving a birth via an egg from an anonymous donor may offer hope to those facing difficulty getting pregnant because of advanced age. But a child born through this process technically has two mothers — a ...
We know that the upshot of sex between a man and a woman is more than 50 million sperm racing to reach one egg, though exactly how sperm swim through a woman’s body and how just one survives the journey to fertilize an egg ...
A Japanese man in his 40s has filed a lawsuit claiming that his estranged wife gave birth to a girl by using a frozen fertilized egg without his consent, his lawyer said Monday. In the lawsuit, filed with the Osaka District Court on Dec. 20, ...
An ethically questionable research project is launched to see if miscarriages can be prevented by genetically screening eggs fertilized in vitro before implantation in the womb.
The first insurance product in the nation to cover the cost of fertility treatments will be launched on Oct. 2, Nippon Life Insurance Co. said. The company hopes the new product will help counter the nation's declining birthrate, it said Monday. When those insured receive in-vitro ...
Around 30 female employees from Rohto Pharmaceutical Co. in Osaka are listening intently as Sakae Goto, a fertility specialist, gives a presentation at the drugmaker's first in-house seminar on the topic. "Eggs start 'aging' when (women) reach around 35," Goto, who runs a fertility care ...
Infertility is a growing concern in rapidly depopulating Japan. But it is often seen as a women's problem, even though both sexes can be to blame. A Tokyo company is trying to change that by marketing a kit that allows men to check their semen ...
In a first for Japan, a Chiba Prefecture hospital authorizes the freezing the eggs of four women for future pregnancies.
