Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we decide what human eggs are worth — and how do the ...

“The best time to freeze your eggs is when you are young and can least afford to pay for it,” says Lauren Makler, founder and CEO of Cofertility, a Los Angeles startup with a novel model that ...

Eggs or sperm donated for the purpose of assisted reproductive technology may not be used for any destructive purposes, including but not limited to: Scientific or clinical research; Development of ...

Sophia Bouzid ’24 was a biology and public health double major and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. UCSF ...

‘I’m not using them – I’m literally just flushing them away,’ says Katie Higgins, when asked why she chose to donate her eggs. It was by chance that Katie, who was then 28, first considered egg ...

Kylee Pucci is a six-time egg donor and has a unique relationship with her biological daughter Kylee Pucci Egg donation provides families with the chance to experience parenthood when natural ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) recently reported a striking first: They created human eggs in the lab using skin cells and then fertilized those lab-derived eggs with human ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a spouse’s seemingly irrational request about privacy and assisted reproduction. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My husband and I are thrilled to be ...

White women are paid up to eight times more for their eggs than Black women in the U.S., according to data uncovered by the author of a new book which exposes the lesser-known ramifications of egg ...

A woman in India estimates she has dozens of biological children, and she says there are many more women like her because India has a thriving black market for human eggs. NPR's Diaa Hadid and ...