What is a Xytex?
A. Xytex is a made-up name to connote gamete services for health care professionals and their patients. Gamete is the technical term for both the female and male reproductive cells, ova or eggs and sperm. Xytex is much more than a sperm bank. Its primary job is to find persons qualified to be medically suitable gamete donors. The process of qualifying a donor is very intense and arduous, generating a lot of medical, psychological, genetic and social information about donors and their families. It is Xytex’s job to share this information with patients and their medical specialists so that the best possible match is made between donor and recipient.