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- California Cryobank - Tissue bank for sperm and embryo storage in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge MA. Umbilical cord blood storage in Santa Monica, California.
- Biogenetics Corporation - Provides cryopreservation and/or storage to individuals preserving their own sperm, embryos, testicular tissue, or ovarian tissue. Contact information for offices in New York and New Jersey.
- Cryobanks International - Provides umbilical cord blood storage, personal blood storage, semen banking, anonymous donor semen, and male infertility testing. Has a very good FAQ section. In Altamonte Springs, Florida.
- Mouse Frozen Embryo and Sperm Archive (FESA) - Mouse sperm and embryo cryopreservation research and services. One of the largest research archives in the world. Part of the Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell UK
- ProVitro Fertility Products - Manufacturer of infertility products including spermfilter, spermwash, sperm cryoprotective medium. In Odense, Denmark.
- Canine Cryobank - Cryopreservation of dog semen for breeding, and of cells for possible future cloning. In San Marcos, California.
Wikipedia Articles
- Donor offspring - A donor offspring, or donor conceived person, is conceived via the donation of sperm (sperm donation) or ova (egg donation), or both, either from two separate donors or from a couple. In the case of embryo donation, the conceiving parents are a couple.
- Donor conceived people - Donor conceived people are born via the donation of sperm, ova or both, either from two separate donors or from a couple, as is the case with embryo donation.
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority - The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is a statutory body in the United Kingdom that regulates and inspects all UK clinics providing in vitro fertilisation, artificial insemination or the storage of human ova, sperm or embryos. In public administration terms it is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) accountable to the Department of Health.
- Embryo drawing - Embryo drawing refers to any representation of the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell that results when an egg and sperm fuse during fertilization.
- Hamster test - The hamster test is a method for diagnosing male infertility due to the inability of the sperm to penetrate the ova. Sperm are mixed with hamster eggs that have had the outer membranes removed, and the number of sperm penetrations per egg is measured.