Talk:Sperm bank

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How?

How do they freeze the sperm? Just drop it to freezing temperatures? Does any inert chemial need to be added? Thanks --x1987x 12:34, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

A cryos freezing medium consists of di-sodium hydrogen phosphate, sodium di-hydrogen phosphate, sodium chloride, glucose, sterile water and glycerol is added to the sperm. The sperm is filled in straw or vails and then suspended in liquid nitrogen.

How long can sperm remain frozen for? Some guy 02:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

There is no shelf live on sperm if stored correctly.

[edit] Clairification Necessary

From the article: "The sperm is stored in small vials or straws of holding between 0.4-1.0 and frozen in liquid nitrogen tanks." Holding between 0.4-1.0 what? These numbers need units. -24.118.117.0 01:30, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Well spotted. According the article Sperm donation the correct unit is "ml". I've added it. Robert Brockway 09:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Problem

Lizbrays's edit introduced copyrighted material from this commercial site. Someone else will need to merge in the subsequent content but we have no choice but to revert it out. This site can be added as a reference and then the content re-added, but not plagiarized. This is a serious matter, sorry to hurt the article. I only found it by accident.

Wellspring (talk) 22:12, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I went back to the most recent version and took out the copyrighted material. Ml66uk2 (talk) 09:06, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.

Wellspring (talk) 15:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

I was going through the recent edits. user:ALEXIS has made many many changes, which I really haven't been able to go through yet. :) However, I noticed Angelofdeath275's point about the external links being advertisements. Yeah, they do seem to be an exhaustive list of sperm banks world-wide. Is that necessarily bad? I'm not aware of the policies on this, so I figured I'd bring it up here. Angelofdeath275 himself has since been banned from wikipedia, so I can't just talk to him about it. Wellspring (talk) 15:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

The policies are here: WP:LINKS

"Links normally to be avoided: ... Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services."

I don't think listing sperm banks here is a good idea anyway. There are just too many of them. Ml66uk2 (talk) 17:53, 25 February 2008 (UTC)