What are the differences of using fresh vs. frozen donor eggs? Saghar Kasiri, Director of European Operations at Cryos, explains the main differences and the pros and cons of both. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

Françoice Shenfield, LRCP, MRCS, MA, Clinical Specialist in Reproductive Medicine Unit, EGA, University College Hospital, talks about the different reasons that people seek fertility treatment abroad. Furthermore, she discusses the disadvantages and the future of Cross Border Reproductive Care. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

The past 6 years there has been a trend for freezing all embryos because of a belief that this would lead to higher birth rates. Prof. Peter Humaidan, DMSc from The Fertility Clinic at Skive Regional Hospital, Faculty of Health Aarhus University, tell about new analysis results which points in the direction that only subgroups will benefit from using frozen embryos. Furthermore, he shares his thoughts about what we will see in the future of fertility treatment. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

Prof. Willem Ombelet, MD, PhD, Genk & Hasselt Institute for Fertility Technology, is the author of the book ‘Intra-Uterine Donor Insemination: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Daily Practice.’ In this interview, he shares some of the things that can affect the chances of obtaining pregnancy when performing IUI. In this context, he emphasizes the importance of proper female diagnosis taking into consideration the history of the woman through a clinical examination, hysterosalpingography, vaginal ultrasound, hysteroscopy, and blood sample/cervical smear. He furthermore points to new research showing that the pace of the insemination may have an effect and that HPV positivity in women and men undergoing intrauterine insemination has a negative effect on pregnancy rates. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

Lone Bruhn Madsen, MSc and PhD at the University of Aarhus, talks about the current tendencies within genetic screening of sperm and egg donors which point in the direction that we screen for more and more diseases. But what are the pros and cons of that? The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

When a child is born with a genetic disorder after donor conception, we often see that there is a lot of reaction in the media and questions about whether this could have been avoided. Wybo Dundorp, Assoc. Prof. at Maastricht University, discusses what the right balance is regarding genetic testing of sperm and egg donors. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

20% of young men in the general population has a sperm quality that is lower than it should be. According to Prof. Allan Pacey, BSc, PhD at The University of Sheffield, that does not mean that they will have troubles reproducing if they start early in their lives. One of the problems is, though, that more and more people wait until later in life to have children and the psychological implications after a diagnosis of infertility can be very difficult to handle. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children’s wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.

Around 26 million people have been using genealogy databases to trace their family trees. Joyce Harper, Prof, BSc, PhD, FRC Path at the University College London, talks about how this trend can affect the anonymity of gamete donors even if the donors have not themselves put their DNA in a database. Joyce Harper emphasizes the importance of the parents being honest about the children's origin from the beginning and she suggests that the donors should be informed about the fact that they may be found by potential donor children in the future even though they choose to be anonymous donors. The interview was made during The Cryos Symposium 2019 where Cryos gathered 200 fertility professionals from different countries to discuss and share knowledge and experiences within topics such as ethics, legislation, the donor children's wellbeing, donor sperm and eggs and genetics.