Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Across the sea, I stored my seeds (Part 1)
8/03/2016 07:33:00 PM
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
~ Frost Robert,1920
As most traditional Chinese kids, I was always a typical "good" student—organized, concentrated, and keen to study. My life should be like this—studying with good grades, graduation with a honored prize, and marrying to a perfect Mr. Right. I met the "one" when I was 17, and I truly believed that we would be together during the rest of my life.
How about the fertility capacity of frozen eggs?
11/20/2015 01:47:00 AM
Before we decide to cryopreserve our own eggs for the future use,
we must think about the impact of freezing.
According to many scientific articles, the risk of egg freezing is related to the maternal age, not the procedure itself. The findings are concordant to the report released by Stork Fertility Center in newest annual meeting of Taiwan Society of Reproductive Medicine.
How long can my eggs remain frozen?
11/11/2015 12:48:00 AM
After I have made up my mind to do egg freezing, what information I should know about this technique?
1. Longer the storage is, lower the success rate of thawing egg is?
At Stork Fertility Center, the mature eggs (MII stage) would be vitrified and then stored in the liquid nitrogen, which performs a -196℃ circumstance to stop biological activity in the cells. The previous scientific reports showed that no significant relations exist between long-term storage and quality of thawing eggs based on the stable circumstance and reliable freezing/thawing techniques. — a record-breaking case can be seen here: Monica Zapotoczny
2. If the techniques are workable, how long can I store my eggs?
According to the Taiwan Assisted Human Reproduction Act, there is no time limit to the autologous egg freezing. However, the donated eggs (or sperms) should be used in 10 years. The fresh and frozen eggs displayed similar clinical outcomes, so the storage time is just depended on the individual schedules.
3. If I am menopausal, can I use the donors' frozen eggs?
The uterine status and menstrual cycles can be regulated by the external hormones. Thus the success rate of thawing eggs is related to the maternal age of the donated egg rather than the age of the egg recipient — An oocyte recipient at the Stork Fertility Center got healthy twins by using the donors' eggs, and she was already 62 years old!
Sheryl Sandberg Explains Why Facebook Covers Egg-Freezing
4/27/2015 07:47:00 PM
Original Article: http://time.com/3835233/sheryl-sandberg-explains-why-facebook-covers-egg-freezing/
Sheryl Sandberg:
She is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. In June 2012, she was elected to the board of directors by the existing board members becoming the first woman to serve on Facebook's board. Before Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
In 2012 she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. As of January 2014, Sandberg is reported to be worth over US$1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.
by Charlotte Alter
"I talked about it with our head of HR, and said, 'God we should cover this'"
A Facebook employee with cancer inspired COO Sheryl Sandberg to create the company’s controversial egg-freezing policy, Sandberg said in an interview released Friday.
In a Bloomberg Television interview with Emily Chang, Sandberg explained the genesis of the policy that gives employees money to get their eggs frozen in order to delay childbirth.
“There’s a young woman working at Facebook who had got cancer, and I knew her and she came to me and said, ‘I’m going to go through the treatment, and that means I won’t be able to have children unless I can freeze my eggs, and I can’t afford it, but our medical care doesn’t cover it,'” Sandberg explained. “I talked about it with our head of HR, and said, ‘God we should cover this.’ And then we looked at each other and said, ‘Why would we only cover this for women with cancer, why wouldn’t we cover this more broadly?'”
Egg-freezing has been widely used to help women with cancer preserve their fertility after chemotherapy, but it’s increasingly being used by women who want to delay motherhood for non-medical reasons, like if they haven’t found the right partner or they want to focus on work. When Facebook and Apple announced in November that they would cover elective egg-freezing for their employees, some critics attacked the policies, saying the companies were essentially encouraging women to delay motherhood until it’s convenient for the company.
Virgin CEO Richard Branson doesn’t agree. “We at Virgin want to steal the idea and offer it to our women,” he told Bloomberg in the same interview. “Somebody said to me they got criticism…and I said, ‘How can anybody criticize them for doing that? It’s women’s choice.”
He has a personal reason for supporting egg-freezing policies. “My daughter just had two wonderful twins from eggs, and they wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for the eggs,” he said.
"I talked about it with our head of HR, and said, 'God we should cover this'"
A Facebook employee with cancer inspired COO Sheryl Sandberg to create the company’s controversial egg-freezing policy, Sandberg said in an interview released Friday.
In a Bloomberg Television interview with Emily Chang, Sandberg explained the genesis of the policy that gives employees money to get their eggs frozen in order to delay childbirth.
“There’s a young woman working at Facebook who had got cancer, and I knew her and she came to me and said, ‘I’m going to go through the treatment, and that means I won’t be able to have children unless I can freeze my eggs, and I can’t afford it, but our medical care doesn’t cover it,'” Sandberg explained. “I talked about it with our head of HR, and said, ‘God we should cover this.’ And then we looked at each other and said, ‘Why would we only cover this for women with cancer, why wouldn’t we cover this more broadly?'”
Virgin CEO Richard Branson doesn’t agree. “We at Virgin want to steal the idea and offer it to our women,” he told Bloomberg in the same interview. “Somebody said to me they got criticism…and I said, ‘How can anybody criticize them for doing that? It’s women’s choice.”
He has a personal reason for supporting egg-freezing policies. “My daughter just had two wonderful twins from eggs, and they wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for the eggs,” he said.
She is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. In June 2012, she was elected to the board of directors by the existing board members becoming the first woman to serve on Facebook's board. Before Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
In 2012 she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. As of January 2014, Sandberg is reported to be worth over US$1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.