Secrets of the world′s largest sperm bank: customer-single women-half the sperm, the sperm bank-IT information
Beijing time March 17 message, Denmark a building humble of five layer small floor in the, is located with world maximum of sperm library Cryos company, clean clean of Office in the, several liquid nitrogen tank in the frozen with tens of thousands of support thin of pipe, about 1.7 million copies sperm sample on such quietly of store in lingxia190du of environment in the, in such of temperature in they can keep vitality save is years, from 1987 Cryos established yilai, by provides of sperm has in world let 10,000 name women pregnancy, In over 80 countries, the sperms finally got 27,000 newborn babies.
Throughout the company′s history started from a huge abstract painting, founder of Cryos Ole Schou stood in front of a portrait of contemplation, "30 years ago, I did a" dream ", dreamt of a ice-blue sea, millions of frozen sperm is trapped in the waves. This fantastical dream make my life hard to forget, "then he started with his own sperm test, semen after masturbating every night into the small glass bottles, stored in a home refrigerator to freeze. "My dream has spawned another dream, I′m going to create a sperm bank. "This is the origin of Cryos sperm bank.
This blue giant abstract painting hangs in the middle of sperm, Denmark allow anonymous donations, has attracted a large number of donors, about 1000 a year apply for sperm donors, adopted after a series of complex filter, including genetic testing, about 1/10 people eligible to donate sperm. BGI China will also cooperate with Cryos, second generation sequencing technology, detect genetic disease risk, avoiding genetic birth defects, guarantee the health of the next generation.
Founder of Cryos Ole Schou absurd dream
In here donated fine who can select four species different mode: first species is completely anonymous, only know it is a copies sample; second species is part anonymous, will displayed few of characters information, like sent color; third species part not anonymous, will provides to customer more of characters information; fourth species for completely not anonymous, race, and eyes color, and height, and weight, and blood, all of characters information are can provides. Select anonymous donated, you of name will forever was hidden to, donated fine by health out of children not know father is who; if not anonymous, children in 18 age zhihou right to know truth and has may will found you, despite select not anonymous may will get more high of paid, about only 25% of donated who will public himself of information, most of people does not hope through donated fine produced of offspring found himself.
Schou, founder here share a very interesting case, most out of children through sperm donation is not to find the real father, had a very high IQ children and is a member of Mensa, had come to Cryos looking for sperm donors, because he thought that his high IQ is certainly not my mother passed on to him, he wanted to know who the real father is.
Sperm Interior Ministry, placing pornographic magazines and sexy pictures
Area does not big of donated fine room in the hanging with sexy of beauty portrait, and porn magazine also has cycle play of limit level film, donated fine who General fast of in inside stay Shang a few minutes Bell, slow of more than 20 minutes, "if over half hours not out, we on will to knock see what occurred has what thing", Schou with Nordic people somewhat exaggerated of expression laugh with introduced, donation of semen took out Hou was put to received Taiwan, received Taiwan has fingerprint collection device, through fingerprint collection posted Shang special of number, prevention sample was make mixed.
Thin tube filled with semen
A volume in the not-so-refined barrel of liquid nitrogen can store 30,000 sperm samples
These number of sample immediately was into collection box, sperm collection to here yihou, actually on like milk production factory as, in here sperm will removal virus, and bacteria, clear infection real, after purification processing Hou, a root root loaded full semen, and sperm of collection box on into liquid nitrogen fine barrels in the frozen up, a volume does not big of liquid nitrogen fine barrels in the can store 30,000 copies sperm sample.
Those orders selected sperm samples will be stored packed in dry ice or liquid nitrogen, sending online customers, dry ice sent only 3-4 days in Europe, liquid nitrogen method to send the box, you can save 1-3 week, most to places outside the EU, Cryos has a total of more than more than 80 countries around the world customers to sell sperm.
According to global statistics, there are about 10%-20% heterosexual couples unable to have children. 10%-20% in infertile couples, 5%-10% of the reason is because men. Medical treatment for infertility, women have a lot of different kinds of treatment, but very few men choose, can undergo surgery but the effects are very weak, to adopt or find a sperm donor is the most effective method.
Select the customer if order sperm are opposite-sex couples, tend to choose anonymous, only simple information like; if you are gay families, tend to choose not anonymous, the more information the better; if you are single women, likewise tend to prefer to be anonymous, to get all the information, which is the most sperm are part of growing customer base.
Dry ice sent samples of sperm
In 1977, began with a microscope sperm, by 2005, Schou has made B2C market sperm banks, directly to the customer, according to Cryos company′s own statistics, we can see a lot of interesting data:
From 1990 began only specific couples customer, from 2000 began, gay and single women began has development, 2015 single women has occupy has 50% of customer number, this part single women general age partial big, and trained higher education, engaged in lawyer, and doctor, and reporter, good of work, they found himself again find another half birth children time too late has, and requirements compared high compared picky, so to sperm library directly selected most meet requirements, and quality best of sperm into has a good of select By 2020, could such groups occupied 70% customers.
In September 2014-May 2015, sperm bank buy orders around 20% from clinics, 80% is the customer orders, 64% between the customer and 31-40, about 41-45 19%, if you put these two together, close to 90% women who are over the age of 30. More than 50% customers have postgraduate qualifications, such as PHD, plus undergraduate students accounted for almost 80%.
Actually purchase sperm of costs does not expensive, according to to for of different type surgery, general need purchase two tube sperm sample, each tube probably contains 10 million a sperm, costs according to concentration, and donated who information from 40 euro (not to 300 Yuan Yuan) to 1000 Euro (about for more than 7,000 more Yuan Yuan) ranging, whole purchase process is convenient, Internet selected good fancy of sample, Xia orders pay money on can directly got, customer can with sperm to clinic or hospital for surgery gave birth to next generation. Cryos sperm has received more than 10,000 a year more than the order, Denmark was pregnant through artificial insemination in countries with the highest rates, accounted for around 10%.
In Sina technology interview of last, Schou some regrets of said, because legal policy of not allows, they also have from China of customer, talked about future, Schou vision with virtual reality of way to select donated fine who and sperm, customer without again through boring of online filter information Xia single, but through meals, and dating, series unprecedented of experience, to one virtual love, happiness of birth next generation.
揭秘全球最大精子库：一半客户为单身女性 - 精子,精子库 - IT资讯
北京时间3月17日消息，丹麦一栋不起眼的五层小楼中，坐落着世界最大的精子库Cryos公司，干净整洁的办公室中，几个液氮罐中冰封着上万支细细的管子，约170万份精子样本就这样静静的储存在零下190度的环境中，在这样的温度里它们可以保持活力保存很多年，从1987年Cryos成立以来，所提供的精子已经在全世界让一万名妇女怀孕，遍布80个国家，这些精子最后变成了27000名新生儿。
整个公司的历史从一副巨型的抽象画开始，Cryos创始人Ole Schou站在画像前沉思，“30年前我做的一个“梦”，梦见了一片冰蓝色的大海，数以百万计的冷冻精子被困在海浪中。这个荒诞不经的梦令我终生都难以忘怀，”后来他开始用自己的精子试验，每晚自慰后将精液装入小玻璃瓶，储存在家里的冰箱中进行冷冻。“我的梦催生了另外一个梦想，我准备创建一座精子库。”这就是Cryos精子库的由来。
这幅蓝色巨型抽象画就挂在捐精室的中间，丹麦允许匿名捐献，吸引了众多的捐献者，一年大约有1000个申请捐精者，通过包括基因检测在内的一系列复杂筛选后，大约只有1/10的人符合规定可以捐精。中国的华大基因也将跟Cryos展开合作，通过二代测序技术，检测遗传病风险，避免遗传出生缺陷，保证下一代的健康。
Cryos创始人Ole Schou荒诞不经的梦
在这里捐精者可以选择四种不同模式：第一种是完全匿名，只知道它是一份样本；第二种是部分匿名，会显示少量的性状信息，比如发色；第三种部分不匿名，会提供给客户更多的性状信息；第四种为完全不匿名，人种、眼睛颜色、身高、体重、血型等所有的性状信息都可以提供。选择匿名捐献，你的名字将永远被隐去，捐精所生出来的孩子不会知道父亲是谁；如果不匿名，孩子在18岁之后有权知道真相并有可能会找到你，尽管选择不匿名可能会获得更高的报酬，大约只有25%的捐献者会公开自己的信息，大多数的人并不希望通过捐精产生的后代找到自己。
创始人Schou讲到这里分享了一个十分有趣的案例，大多数通过捐精生育出来的孩子并不会来寻找真正的父亲，有一个智商非常高的孩子，是门萨的会员，曾经来Cryos寻找捐精者，因为他认为他的高智商肯定不是妈妈遗传给他的，他想知道真正的爸爸是谁。
捐精室内部，摆放了色情杂志和性感画像
面积并不大的捐精室中挂着性感的美女画像、色情杂志还有循环播放的限制级影片，捐精者一般快的在里面呆上几分钟，慢的20多分钟，“如果超过半个小时不出来，我们就会去敲门看看到底发生了什么事”，Schou用北欧人有点夸张的表情笑着介绍，捐赠的精液拿出来后被放到接收台，接收台有指纹采集器，通过指纹采集贴上特殊的编号，预防样本被搞混。
细细的管子中装满了精液
一个体积并不大的液氮精桶中可以存放3万份精子样本
这些编号的样本随即被放入采集盒，精子收集到这里以后，其实就像牛奶生产工厂一样，在这里精子会去除病毒、细菌，清除感染物，经过纯化处理后，一根根装满精液、精子的采集盒就转入液氮精桶中冷冻起来，一个体积并不大的液氮精桶中可以存放3万份精子样本。
那些被下单选中的精子样本会被打包存放在干冰或者液氮中，寄给网上的客户，干冰只能保存3-4天寄到欧洲境内，用液氮的方法寄送的箱子，可以保存1-3周，大多数送到欧盟以外的地方，Cryos已经共向遍布全球80多个国家的客户售出过精子。
据统计全球有约10%—20%的异性夫妻无法生育孩子。在10%—20%不孕不育夫妻中，有5%—10%的原因都是因为男性。针对不孕不育的医学治疗方法中，女性有很多不同种类的治疗，但对于男性选择非常少，可以进行手术但是功效非常微弱，领养或是寻找精子捐献者是最有效的方法。
选择订购精子的客户如果是异性夫妻，一般倾向于选择匿名，只有简单的信息就好；如果是同性恋家庭，倾向于选择不匿名，信息越全越好；如果是单身女性，同样倾向选择不匿名，想要获得全部的信息，这也是最近精子库发展壮大的一部分客户群体。
干冰寄送的精子样本
1977年，有人开始用显微镜拍精子，到2005年，Schou已经把精子库市场做成B2C，直接面对客户，根据Cryos公司自己的统计，我们可以看到很多有意思的数据：
从1990年开始只有异性夫妻客户，从2000年开始，同性和单身女性开始有所发展，2015年单身女性已经占据了50%的客户人数，这部分单身女性一般年龄偏大、受过高等教育，从事律师、医生、记者等良好的工作，她们发现自己再找另一半生育孩子时间太晚了，而且要求比较高比较挑剔，所以来精子库直接挑选最符合要求、质量最好的精子成了一种不错的选择，到2020年，可能这类群体会占据70%的客户。
在2014年9月—2015年5月之间，精子库的购买订单大概20%来自诊所，80%是客户自己下单，64%的客户都31—40岁之间，41—45岁左右占19%，如果把这两块加起来的话，将近90%都是超过30岁的女性。50%以上的客户都是研究生以上的学历，比如PHD，加上本科生几乎占据了80%。
其实购买精子的费用并不昂贵，根据要进行的不同类型手术，一般需要购买两管精子样本，每一管大概包含一千万个精子，费用根据浓度、捐献者信息从40欧元（不到300元人民币）到1000欧元（约为7000多元人民币）不等，整个购买过程十分方便，上网选好看中的样本，下订单付钱就可以直接拿到，客户可以带着精子去诊所或医院进行手术孕育下一代。Cryos一年会接到1万多份精子订单，丹麦也是通过人工授精怀孕率最高的国家，占到了10%左右。
在新浪科技采访的最后，Schou有些遗憾的说，因为法律政策的不允许，他们还有没有来自中国的客户，谈到未来，Schou憧憬用虚拟现实的方式去选择捐精者以及精子，客户不用再通过枯燥的网上筛选信息下单，而是通过进餐、约会等一系列前所未有的体验，来一场虚拟恋爱，幸福的生育下一代。