Monthly Archives: April 2011

Staying in Touch with Older Sperm Donors

Blog written by Michelle Ottey, PhD, Director of Operations, Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc. Every sperm bank presents a medical profile of some sort for their donors. This profile usually presents the medical and genetic health of the sperm donor and of … Continue reading

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Recruiting new donors

Blog written by Laboratory Staff Zachary K. Getting new donors is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Our lab site does an extensive amount of work to recruit new donors. We advertise in professional papers, with private … Continue reading

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Copper IUDs

Blog written by Laboratory Staff Nisha The most recent edition of Fertility and Sterility (March 15th, 2011) published a study on the biocompatibility of a new type of intrauterine device (IUD) that contains cupric ions in mice. Traditionally, non-hormone using … Continue reading

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We train to be the best

Blog written by Laboratory Staff Chauntae How do you know we are the best? Because we TRAIN to be the best!! As a supervisor responsible for the majority of staff training, and from my 6 years of experience with the … Continue reading

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Vegetarian Sperm

Blog written by Site Manager CB I’ve been in the fertility industry for about 6 years now and have come across many interesting facts that can increase or decrease a man’s specimen quality. A study published in the Molecular and … Continue reading

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RESOLVE promotes reproductive health

Blog written by Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc. Site Manager Amy Erickson Hagen In the Midwest we are fortunate to have open spaces, kind people and weather that keeps the riff raff out. As well as these typically thought of Midwestern terms … Continue reading

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Beware of ‘Gray Market’ Sperm Donors

Blog written by Michelle Ottey, PhD, Director of Operations, Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc. We all have choices to make about building our families. Some choose to have children, and some choose to be wonderful aunts and uncles or mentors. If you … Continue reading

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Forum Abbreviations Explained

Blog written by CLI Family Forum Moderator Desiree Technology has opened the world to a whole new form of communication. The CLI Family Forums offer the opportunity to connect with other people who have utilized donor sperm to start a … Continue reading

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