by Katie Moisse Scientific American February 2010 More recently, a relatively new procedure can preserve fertility by removing and freezing the “biological clock” itself: The ovary. Before starting cancer treatment, one walnut-size ovary is removed in a 30-minute, minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure. The tissue is then cut into pieces the size of rice grains and flash frozen […]
“Infertility Chat on Mom.com” Monday, February 7, 2000 Dr. Sherman SilberInternational Fertility ExpertAuthor of How to Get Pregnant (For more questions and answers, visit Dr. Silber’s Frequently Asked Questions page. Also check out Dr. Silber’s online chat from TalkCity.com PregnancyEditor: Mom.com is proud to present Dr. Sherman Silber, one of the world’s leading fertility experts […]
Notes from Dr. Silber’s Journal from his trip to the Galapagos Islands to study extinction, and gather data for his theory on dinosaur extinction 1/7/11 Santa Cruz Islands and The Great Tortoises What I learned about the Galapagos tortoise breeding reintroduction program is the most important new information I got on this expedition for fleshing […]
Fertility Pioneer by Andrea Hijmans AMC Magazine, September 2011 AMC Magazine is a magazine of the University of Amsterdam Medical Center in the Netherlands, lauding Dr. Silber’s pioneering and innovative work in infertility. Fertility expert Sherman Silber is an innovation champion. He was, for instance, the first one to restore male sterilisation and among the […]
Transmission of Y deletions by ICSI makes genetic counseling necessary IVF News, Volume 9, No 3&4, 1998 The role of the Y chromosome in male-germ-cell development continues to pose important challenges for researchers and clinicians alike, but the picture appeared to become even more challenging with reports from the groups of Dr Sherman Silber in St […]
By Victoria Lambert The London Daily Telegraph Sunday Magazine, November 26, 2009 As an increasing number of women delay motherhood at the risk of losing their fertility, one doctor believes he has found the answer: pausing biological time by freezing ovarian tissue. Victoria Lambert sees him at work. A small, warm-faced man, with sharp darting […]
“Ovary Transplants Could Transform Family Life” by Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Specialist & Surgeon Telegraph.co.uk, December 18, 2008 The birth of a baby girl after her mother was the first woman to receive an ovary transplant has been the culmination of ten years of work on freezing and transplanting ovaries and it’s thrilling. We have […]
Doctor Pioneers New Way to Extend Fertility: Freeze Ovary Tissue By Sylvia Pagán Westphal Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2007 Stored at subzero temperatures in a laboratory at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis are eight tiny strips of tissue that were once part of Amy Johnson’s ovaries. Ms. Johnson, 34 years old, plans to […]
LIFESTYLES MAGAZINE Pre-Spring 1999, vol. 27, no. 160 Download a PDF version of this article. The Physician’s Prayer Maimonides 1135 .1204 C.E. “Almighty God Before I begin in my holy labor To heal the work of Your hands I place my supplication Before Your awesome majesty.” You’ve heard of JTS-Jewish Standard Time? Jewish events have […]
Summary of Hong Kong Meeting February 1-3, 2013, Chaired by Dr. Milton Leong from Hong Kong and Professor Sherman Silber from the USA February 10, 2013 This was a unique gathering of East and West of the greatest scientists and clinicians working on fertility preservation and stem cell biology to produce eggs and sperm (gametes). […]
KSDK Channel 5, July 16, 2010 Amy Tucker, of Columbia, Illinois, became the first cancer survivor in the United States to give birth [watch news video] thanks to fertility preservation procedures performed by a doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. Tucker was 19 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer and told she could […]
National Zoo Switcheroo: Gelding Is a Stallion Again by Fran JurgaMonday, June 16, 2008 The National Zoo is reporting that it reversed an equine vasectomy procedure performed on Minnesota, an endangered male Przewalski’s Horse in the zoo’s herd. This is the first procedure of its kind to be performed on an endangered equid species. “The […]