sperm banks
Donor cell storage
A sperm bank is a facility that collects, freezes, and stores human semen for later use in artificial insemination.
Donors provide samples that are screened, catalogued by characteristics, and preserved in liquid nitrogen.
Recipients—often single women, same-sex couples, or those facing fertility challenges—select donors based on profiles: They chose a sperm bank donor with similar physical traits.
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- artificial inseminationMedical sperm introduction procedure
- cryobankFrozen tissue storage facility
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- andrologyMale reproductive medicine
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- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
- captive conservationcaptive breeding, breeding programs, zoos, aquariums, conservation breeding
- family planningbirth control, contraception, fertility, pregnancy prevention, conception
- breeding geneticsgenes, DNA, alleles, chromosomes, genomes
- captive breedingcaptive breeding, breeding program, breeding pair, breeding pairs, breeding colony
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