Reproduction

  • A fertile news day!

    Twenty-two years after her cancer-stricken dad was sterilized, a healthy baby girl is born. Plus, stem cells may mean new hope for women struggling to conceive.
  • My fiancé put hot sauce in his used condoms

    He heard on the radio that scheming women will do anything to get pregnant.
  • Men, guard your genes!

    Baby-obsessed bachelorettes will soon be able to create sperm from stray skin cells, warns Britain's Telegraph.
  • Dying to become mothers

    The half-million women who die annually while giving birth are simply not a political priority.
  • The secret life of sperm

    The author of a new book on the social history of "baby gravy" discusses sperm in children's books, the frontiers of artificial insemination and how semen became a TV star.
  • Dead man's sperm

    An Israeli court gives parents permission to have a woman inseminated with their dead son's sperm.
  • Should I become an egg donor -- to pay off my loans?

    I'm troubled by the ethical implications of taking money for my ova.
  • Will young women put their eggs on ice?

    In Britain, fertility clinics are gearing up to cater to the "have it all" generation.
  • Save lives! Defy nature!

    Parents who kill their kids prove that we shouldn't have an automatic right to reproduce.
  • Building better humans

    The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them.
  • Bear-naked video!

    China is worried that its rare pandas aren't interested in sex, so they are showing them panda porn.
  • Letters to the editor

    Has evolution ensured survival of the rapists? Plus: Kiddie sales force is exploitation; hot and bothered over RealDolls sex dolls.
  • No littering

    Fertility experts urged to reduce number of embryos implanted
  • Italy mulls assisted fertility law

    Parliament's lower house approves prison terms for human cloning or artificial insemination using donated sperm.
  • Cloning conundrums

    Who gets the money if Bill Gates decides to reproduce himself?
  • Abstinence blues: Teen sex isn't always traumatic

  • The meme hunter

    A British psychologist prowls for hard evidence that memes -- ideas that reproduce genetically, like viruses -- actually exist. What's one of the prime habitats? The Internet.

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