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Four minutes later, he emerged. he placed the no-longer sterile cup in a waiting receptacle, answered a few more quick questions on another form--this one labeled "Semen Analyses" and--with a quick goodbye to the receptionist, mark was off. The whole trip--the walk, the application and the session in the little room--took under an hour...
...some couples cannot produce more than one embryo, perhaps because the man's semen is in short supply or the woman's ovaries are running out of eggs or do not respond well to hormone treatments designed to stimulate them into superovulating (producing large numbers of eggs on demand). A woman with only one embryo has about a 10% to 20% chance of getting pregnant through in-vitro fertilization. If that embryo could be cloned and turned into three or four, the chances of a successful pregnancy would increase significantly. This is the reason Hall and Stillman began experimenting with...
...months to 1 year--pay dirt (or seed). If you make this stage, you will be compensated in full for your 2 months of qualifying samples. Only 7 to 10 percent of the original field make it to the final stage. The prime criterion for inclusion? YOUR SEMEN MUST FREEZE WELL. If it doesn't, don't worry--you're "not abnormal." But no one knows what makes your sperm better in the solid phase than the next...
...addition, the employees only saw changes in lab packaging--which included the use of occasionally leaky brown paper bags to handle blood and semen specimens--after OSHA threatened to investigate...
...worker said that after picking up a bag to perform a semen analysis "I came up with a wet hand...