fertility

Fertility is the natural human capability of producing offspring. As a measure, "fertility rate" is the number of children born per couple, person or population. Fertility differs from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilisation and carrying a pregnancy to term). A lack of fertility is infertility while a lack of fecundity would be called sterility.

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Parents live longer than childless couples, study shows

Fri, Dec 7, 2012

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A new study released by Danish researchers at Aarhus University has found a correlation that suggests that couples that are unable to conceive children have a higher mortality rate than those that are. The study studied more than 21,000 couples having in vitro fertilization treatment between 1994 and 2005. During this period, 15,210 children were born and 1,564 were [...]

fertility, in vitro, pregnancy

An interesting fact: Male fertility is in the bones

Sun, Feb 20, 2011

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The researchers of the Columbia University Medical Center discovered a nice revealed a nice little nugget of information that will probably astonish most of our male (and probably female) readers. The male fertility is determined partially by the bones. How exactly does this work and how does this effect us? Well, they’ve discovered that the [...]

discovery, fertility, humans, rats, Science, skeleton

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