Cambridge Temperature Concepts

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Cambridge Temperature Concepts (CTC)^[1] is a UK based company which is currently developing a patented fertility monitor called DuoFertility^[2]. The company was started by six post graduate students (Dr S. Husheer, Dr D. Naumann, Dr L. Ferguson, Dr O. Chausiaux, C. Ayoub and S. Mackie) at the University of Cambridge, England in 2005, and won multiple entrepreneur awards at the University, including the Downing Enterprise award^[3], the CUEBiC Business Plan Competition^[4], and the UKSEC Business Plan Competition^[5].

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Because of the new and innovative ideas for the detection of ovulation for couple trying to conceive, CTC has received much publicity including articles in Business Weekly, The Cambridge News, The Telegraph^[6], and The Daily Mail^[7]

[edit] DuoFertility

The DuoFertility device can aid the practice of fertility awareness or natural family planning (although it will be marketed only to help achieve pregnancy, while other systems for FA and NFP can also be used as birth control). It consists of a stick-on patch containing a coin-sized circuit that automatically measures and records basal body temperature every few minutes. A hand-held device is then used to read out the temperature data and analyse it. Knowing the body basal temperature can be used to predict the time of ovulation, and therefore a trace of daily and monthly temperature trends can be used in this way to aid couples to conceive.

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