Good news for those swimming the wrong way

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vetran replied

9 July 2013, 13:40
Originally posted by doodab View Post

Not sure how that recipe for salad dressing will go down at my next BBQ.

don't know one of my ex girlfriends had a real taste for it.
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doodab replied

9 July 2013, 13:37
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

What was that website we had a link to a couple of years back which told you how to make a homemade sperm centrifuge from a salad spinner?

Not sure how that recipe for salad dressing will go down at my next BBQ.
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mudskipper replied

9 July 2013, 13:35
What was that website we had a link to a couple of years back which told you how to make a homemade sperm centrifuge from a salad spinner?

Edit: found it.
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vetran replied

9 July 2013, 13:33
probably not, but I think IVF availability is another question. I was just impressed with the simplicity of it all.
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Troll replied

9 July 2013, 12:53
Originally posted by vetran View Post

BBC News - IVF as cheap as £170, doctors claim

Experts said there was big potential to open up IVF to the developing world

so simple!

Do we really think that is a good idea?
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vetran started a topic Good news for those swimming the wrong way

9 July 2013, 12:41
Good news for those swimming the wrong way

BBC News - IVF as cheap as £170, doctors claim

The cost of IVF can be cut dramatically from thousands of pounds to around £170 to start a "new era" in IVF, fertility doctors from Belgium claim.

Twelve children have been born through the technique, which replaces expensive medical equipment with "kitchen cupboard" ingredients.

Data, presented at fertility conference in London, suggests the success rate is similar to conventional IVF.

Experts said there was big potential to open up IVF to the developing world.

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Fertility treatment is expensive. In the UK, it costs around £5,000 per cycle.

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The potential implications for this could be quite amazing.”

Stuart Lavery
Director of IVF, Hammersmith Hospital, London
High levels of the gas carbon dioxide are needed when growing embryos in an IVF clinic in order to control the acidity levels. This is maintained using carbon dioxide incubators, medical grade gas and air purification.

Instead, the team at the Genk Institute for Fertility Technology mixed inexpensive citric acid and bicarbonate of soda to produce carbon dioxide.

so simple!
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