- Study on 2759 men (18=22Y) found that higher frequency of mobile phone use (>20 times per day) is associated with a lower sperm concentration https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)01875-7/fulltext 103 comments science
- Some children are born from the germ cells of three people — this is considered a good decision when they want to avoid passing on the mother's defective mitochondria to their children. But it turned out that the mother's mitochondria can ultimately overcome the donor's mitochondria quantitatively. https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(23)00136-X/fulltext 10 comments science
- Danish study found that children who have expressed a desire at the age of 11 to be a different gender enter puberty earlier than their peers. In the study, both birth-assigned boys and girls with a previous expressed desire to change gender entered puberty around two months earlier than their peers https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(22)00474-5/fulltext 487 comments science
- Chronic exposure to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol impacts testicular volume and male reproductive health in rhesus macaques https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(21)02321-9/fulltext 258 comments science
- Data suggests that cannabis may have a detrimental impact on male reproductive health. https://www.fertstert.org/article/s0015-0282(17)31892-7/fulltext 28 comments science
- SARS-CoV-2 infection is unlikely to have long-term effects on male and female reproductive function https://www.fertstert.org/article/s0015-0282(20)30435-0/fulltext 9 comments science
- Climate change may affect ratio of male-to-female newborns, scientists say. Conception vulnerable to external stress factors. Climate change associated with male:female ratios of infant fetal deaths and newborn infants in Japan. https://www.fertstert.org/article/s0015-0282(14)01840-8/pdf 7 comments science
- Among couples being treated for infertility, depression in the male partner was linked to lower pregnancy chances, while depression in the female partner was not found to influence the rate of live birth, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. https://www.fertstert.org/article/s0015-0282(18)30029-3/fulltext 9 comments science
- Statistically significant reduction in general well-being by a first-choice combined oral contraceptive pill (150 μg levonorgestrel and 30 μg ethinylestradiol) in comparison with placebo in healthy women, based on a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. http://www.fertstert.org/article/s0015-0282(17)30247-9/fulltext 32 comments science