Vogel, the midwestern pharmaceutical giant for which Marina Singh works, is funding the research of Dr Annick Swenson in the Amazon in the hope she will develop a fertility drug for post-menopausal women.
The health and demographic data from each calf rope allowed us to develop a fertility profile for the herds, including the average age at first calving, the average number of calves born to each cow, number of calves born in the past year per total herd size, and the average number of observed abortions.
It is well known that fertility rates have been declining worldwide as reviewed by Skakkebaek et al., 2006, and in developed countries fertility rates are well below 2.1, which is necessary to sustain a population at its current level.
As industrialisation swept through what is now the developed world, fertility fell sharply, first in France, then in Britain, then throughout Europe and America.
Moreover, there has been a sharp rise in information, much of it developed through fertility research, about how low sperm levels need to be for a man to be infertile.
This information will help us in developing optimised fertility care in oncology.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01530.017 To examine how the action of p53 might coordinate adaptive stress responses in GSCs, we developed a fertility recovery assay.
To develop effective strategies for fertility control, it is necessary to understand the factors affecting fertility.
Nurses employed in fertility settings in Kuwait should be developed into specialist fertility nurses, through training and certification to enable them perform more expanded nursing roles like embryo transfer and counseling of distressed clients.
In cultured populations, male fertility develops around 6 weeks post-hatch, and female fertility is added around week 7, with the onset of self-fertilization around week 9, if no partner is supplied [ 38- 41].
