California cryobank
California Cryobank is a sperm bank based in California, United States of America. It is one of the two largest in the world. It has offices in Palo Alto , Los Angeles , Cambridge , Massachusetts and New York . According to the company, there were around 600 donors and 75,000 live births registered since 1977 in 2018. Anonymous donations have not been allowed since 2018. There is an option to select semen from donors who look like celebrities. People conceived with the help of sperm donation can receive information about their biological father on request when they are of legal age. The bank also offers semen from donors who have passed away. Co-founder Cappy Rothman was the first doctor to collect sperm from men who had already died. In 2016, he estimated there had been 200 such cases.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seed capital - The business of sperm banks , The Economist , September 14, 2017 (in English)
- ↑ Casais importam sêmen dos EUA com busca que inclui semelhança com famosos , Estelita Hass Carazzai, Phillippe Watanabe, Folha de S. Paulo , May 28, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ↑ "Soy hija única pero tengo 5 hermanos": los hijos de donantes de esperma que buscan sus raíces en internet , Beatriz Díez, BBC Mundo, August 2, 2016 (in Spanish)
- ↑ El controvertido uso de esperma de hombres muertos para tener hijos , Jenny Morber, BBC, May 24, 2016 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Widows and parents want to preserve dead men's sperm - but what are the rights of the deceased? , Jenny Morber, Quartz , May 8, 2016 (in English)