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N.G. is owner of The Center for Human Reproduction, a for-profit fertility center. He is co-inventor on a number of pending and already awarded US patents claiming therapeutic benefits from androgen supplementation in women with low functional ovarian reserve and relating to the FMR1 gene in a diagnostic function in female fertility. He receives royalties from Fertility Nutraceuticals, in which he also holds shares. N.G. is also a co-inventor of three pending AMH-related patent applications, and shareholder in OvaNova Laboratories.
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Gleicher, N., Caplan, A. An alternative proposal to the destruction of abandoned human embryos. Nat Biotechnol 36, 139–141 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4070
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