Media
OpEds
- Richardson, Sarah and Rene Almeling, “The CDC risks its credibility with new pregnancy guidelines,” Boston Globe, February 8, 2016.
- Almeling, Rene, Joanna Radin, and Sarah Richardson, “Egg-freezing a better deal for companies than for women,” CNN.com, October 20, 2014.
- Almeling, Rene. “Should Sperm Banks Reveal the Number of Children Per Donor?“ Ozy, April 23, 2014.
- Almeling, Rene. “The Unregulated Sperm Industry,” The New York Times, Sunday paper, December 1, 2013.
Quoted
- Quoted on sperm donation in "The Business of Sperm Banks," The Economist, September 14, 2017.
- Survey research on women's experiences with IVF profiled in "Why Does IVF Feel Worse Than Donating Eggs?" Fatherly.com, August 18, 2017.
- Interviewed on Dutch national public television show Newshour about international regulations for sperm donation, August 12, 2017.
- Quoted on fertility research in "Egg freezing, so hot right now," CNET.com, May 22, 2017.
- Quoted on egg donation in "Global babies: Who benefits?" New Internationalist Magazine, April 2017.
- Quoted on fertility research in "Fertility Futility: Procedures Claimed to Boost IVF Success Lack Supporting Evidence," Newsweek, January 12, 2017.
- Quoted on egg freezing in "Does the Boss Have a Role in When Millennial Women Start a Family?" GoodCall, November 9, 2016.
- Research on egg donation detailed in Katie O'Reilly's "Egged On: The Commodified Altruism of the Assisted-Reproduction Industry," Bitch Magazine, June 28, 2016.
- Research on sperm donation mentioned in "A Sperm Donor Hid His Schizophrenia From the Cryobank—and It’s Far From the First Time," Slate, April 28, 2016.
- OpEd on egg freezing with Joanna Radin and Sarah Richardson listed on the World Economic Forum's "15 must-read gender stories of the week," February 10, 2016.
- Research on men’s reproductive health mentioned in “Why men should also worry about waiting too long to have kids,” Washington Post Wonkblog, October 27, 2015.
- Research on eggs and sperm detailed in front-page article “Putting a Price on a Human Egg,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2015.
- Appeared in a segment on “How much is a woman’s egg worth? Federal lawsuit will look for an answer,” Legal Broadcast Network, July 31, 2015.
- Quoted in an Associated Press report on a sperm bank lawsuit, e.g. “Sperm bank sued after donor details emerge 7 years later,” Miami Herald, April 19, 2015.
- Q&A on sperm banks in “Everything you wanted to know — and some things you didn’t — about sperm donation,” The Toronto Star, April 7, 2015.
- Research on egg agencies mentioned in “High IQ Eggs Wanted,” Biopolitical Times, March 19, 2015.
- Commentary on corporate egg freezing policies featured in “Egg-freezing? Put flex time, daycare first,” The Globe and Mail, February 8, 2015.
- Quoted in article on egg freezing in China Business News, November 13, 2014.
- Research on eggs and sperm summarized in “Thinking of freezing your eggs? It’s not that simple,” Hindustan Times, November 9, 2014.
- Appeared on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show for a call-in segment on “Does the wrong sperm mean ‘wrongful birth’?” October 3, 2014.
- Research on sperm donation featured in ”Today’s Sperm Donor Isn’t a Broke 20-Something,” Daily Beast, September 20, 2014.
- Research on sperm banks featured in “Sperm Donation is a Huge Industry” HaberTurk (national Turkish newspaper), September 7, 2014
- Tweet about teaching Ferguson on the first day of my gender lecture class at Yale featured in Yes! Magazine, August 26, 2014
- Interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” for a story about women turning to online sperm donation sites, July 12, 2014.
- Research with Miranda Waggoner summarized in “Men’s Fertility Needs More Respect,” Yale Medicine Magazine, Spring 2014.
- Interviewed on the Japanese nightly news program “Today’s Close-Up” for a story about sperm donation, NHK, February 27, 2014.
- Radio interview with Virginia Prescott: “The Hazards of an Unregulated Sperm Industry” New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth, December 10, 2013.
- New article with Miranda Waggoner on men and reproduction mentioned in Sarah Elizabeth Richards’ “Men’s Fertility Should Be Scrutinized Too,” TIME Ideas, December 10, 2013.
- Research with Miranda Waggoner featured in Jessica Grose’s “Hooray for This New Study That Says Women Shouldn’t Be the Only Ones Responsible for Making Healthy Babies,” Slate, December 3, 2013.
- Research on sperm donation featured in Rachel Cromidas’ “Sperm Donation Gains Visibility through Pop Culture” Chicago Tribune’s RedEye, December 3, 2013.
- New article with Shana Gadarian on public opinion regarding genetic testing covered by Healio, HealthDay, Science Daily, CDC’s Genomics & Health Impact Update, NIH’s Medline Plus, and HHS’s Womenshealth.Gov, November 2013.
- Research on sperm donation featured in Eliana Dockterman’s “’Delivery Man’: 9 Sperm Donation Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask,” TIME, November 22, 2013.
- Research on egg and sperm donation discussed in Don Troop’s “The Student Body, for Sale,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2013.
- Research on egg donation mentioned in Ruth Costas’s ”Beauty and Academic Qualifications: Earn up to $50,000 in Controversial Egg Market,” BBC Brasil, September 4, 2012.
- Research on sperm donation featured in Anneli Rufus’ “One Man Fathering 150 Children? Why Sperm Banks May Be Unethical,” Alternet, October 11, 2011.
- Research on the market for sperm mentioned in ”Get Your Free Sperm Here!" Freakonomics Blog, October 7, 2011.
- Podcast on Sex Cells: “A Conversation with Rene Almeling,” Yale University, October 3, 2011.
- Research on sperm donor motivations mentioned in Tony Dokoupil’s ”You Got Your Sperm Where?“ Newsweek, October 2, 2011.
- Radio interview with Robin Young: “Baby Boom: What Happens When One Sperm Donor Has Dozens of Offspring?” National Public Radio’s “Here and Now,” September 29, 2011.
- Interview on Sex Cells with Janice D’Arcy: “Sperm Donors Think ‘Father,’ Egg Donors Don’t Think ‘Mother,’” The Washington Post’s On Parenting Blog, September 28, 2011.
- Research on egg and sperm donation featured in Anna North’s “Why Sperm Donors Say They’re Parents and Egg Donors Don’t,” Jezebel, September 28, 2011.
- Interview on Sex Cells with Mandy Van Deven: “Secrets of the Sperm Bank,” Salon, September 25, 2011.
- Interview on Sex Cells with Katherine Brindley, ”Rene Almeling’s Sex Cells Explores Marketing of Reproductive Donation," The Huffington Post, September 20, 2011.