egg freezing

Last week, Apple and Facebook created a media firestorm after announcing that their lush benefit packages will now include egg freezing coverage.

本月，苹果（Apple）与Facebook相继宣布将把卵子冷冻加入到其“福利大礼包”中，这一消息迅速引发媒体热议。

In order to attempt pregnancy, egg freezing must be followed by in vitro fertilization ( IVF) with another laboratory procedure, a technique known as ICSI ( Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection).

为了怀孕，卵子冷冻必须配合另外一套实验室程序&体外受精（IVF），该项技术被称为ICSI（卵母细胞胞浆内单精子注射）。

Google has also honed in on another reason why women may want egg freezing – namely that they have not yet found the right partner.

谷歌还着眼于女性可能希望冷冻卵子的另一个原因，即她们尚未找到合适的伴侣。

We believe no younger patients have ever undergone egg collection, in-vitro laboratory maturation and egg freezing.

“我们相信没有更年轻的患者进行过卵子采集、体外成熟及卵子的冷冻”。

Egg freezing is classified as a supplementary IVF ( in vitro fertilization) measure in China and the procedure is only available to married women who must have a valid reproduction permit, as stipulated by the Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the country's top health body.

在中国，冷冻卵子被视作体外受精怀孕的一种方式，根据中国权威卫生组织——国家卫生和计划生育委员会的《辅助生殖技术条例》，只有拥有准生证的已婚女性才可冷冻卵子。

Josephine Quintavalle from "Comment of Reproductive Ethics" said the answer lies in a more equal society rather than offering discounted egg freezing.

来自《生殖伦理评论》的约瑟芬·昆塔瓦莱称，解决之道在于建立一个更平等的社会，而不是提供打折冻卵。

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine said egg freezing is still an experimental technology; few doctors know how to freeze and thaw eggs properly.

美国生殖医疗协会说：冰冻卵子现在仍是一种实验性的技术，只有少数医生连接如何冰冻和解冻卵子。

Apple and Facebook have been offering subsidized egg freezing up to a cost of 16000 pounds for staff for the last two years.

过去两年里，苹果和脸书一直为其员工提供最高1.6万英镑的冻卵补贴。

First, most people don't realize the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the ASRM do not endorse the use of egg freezing to defer childbearing.

首先，大多数人并未意识到，美国妇产科医师协会（American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists）和ASRM并不赞成通过卵子冷冻来推迟生育。

This is a key finding given that the average age of non-medical egg freezing customers in the U.S. is 37.4.

这项调查结果非常关键，因为美国非医疗卵子冷冻的客户平均年龄便是37.4岁。

British firms are currently in talks with IVF clinics regarding offering egg freezing as a perk to female employees.

英国多家企业正在与人工授精诊所洽谈，希望向其女员工提供冷冻卵子作为福利。

And no one knows for sure how egg freezing chemicals are absorbed by eggs, or how they affect cell development.

而且谁也不能确定，冷冻所用化学物质有多少会被卵子吸收或影响细胞发育。

High failure rates, and concerns that freezing would damage chromosomes and cause birth defects, kept egg freezing on the sidelines for a decade, however.

但是居高不下的失败率和出生婴儿缺陷率使得卵子冷冻技术十年内处于边缘状态。

With a video illustrating the pros and cons of having babies with the assistance of Oocyte Cryopreservation, or egg freezing technology, the post generated a huge response and attracted 109442 reposts, 31815 comments and 13715 likes within two days after its publication.

解密卵母细胞冷冻技术（或卵子冷冻术）辅助生宝宝的优劣势的视频传到网上之后，在2天时间内就有10万9442条转发，3万1815条评论以及1万3715个赞，引起巨大反响。

Egg freezing is far from settled science.

卵子冷冻远算不上一门成熟的科学。

The cavalier marketing of whizzy egg freezing is clearly working if two of the largest tech companies are signing up to pay for it.

如果这两家最大的科技公司最终同意出钱，那说明，对高科技卵子冷冻技术不负责任的营销取得了效果。

The study also reinforces the use of assisted reproductive technology such as egg freezing for those who wish to begin parenting later in life.

研究也还补充强调了辅助生育技术的使用，例如对那些希望在生命的后期来当父母的人使用卵子冷冻技术。