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A molecular explanation for age-related fertility decline in women

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health have a new theory as to why a woman's fertility declines after her mid-30s. They also suggest an approach that might help slow ...

Medical research created May 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

BPA harms human reproduction by damaging chromosomes, disrupting egg development

A Washington State University researcher has found new evidence that the plastic additive BPA can disrupt women's reproductive systems, causing chromosome damage, miscarriages and birth defects.

Medical research created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists isolate egg-producing stem cells from adult human ovaries

For the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have isolated egg-producing stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and shown these cells can produce what appear to be normal egg cells or ...

Medical research created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bird flu, pig flu, now bat flu? Human risk unclear

(AP) -- For the first time, scientists have found evidence of flu in bats, reporting a never-before-seen virus whose risk to humans is unclear.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Inheritance of mitochondrial disease determined when mother is still an embryo

(Medical Xpress)—The risk of a child to inherit mitochondrial diseases - i. e. malfunction in what is usually referred to as the power plants of the cell - is largely decided when the future mother herself is still an embryo. ...

Genetics created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research shows some recurrent miscarriages due to 'Super Fertility'

(Medical Xpress)—A team of British and Dutch researchers working out of Princess Anne Hospital in the UK have found evidence to suggest that the reason some women experience multiple miscarriages is because ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Aug 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Cell death discovery suggests new ways to protect female fertility

Melbourne researchers have identified a new way of protecting female fertility, offering hope to women whose fertility may be compromised by the side-effects of cancer therapy or by premature menopause.

Medical research created Sep 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research on mice suggests new fertility treatments

Japanese scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice—a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about the ticking of their ...

Medical research created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cells from skin create model of blinding eye disease

For the first time, Wisconsin researchers have taken skin from patients and, using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, turned them into a laboratory model for an inherited type of macular degeneration.

Genetics created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Trust' hormone oxytocin found at heart of rare genetic disorder

The hormone oxytocin - often referred to as the "trust" hormone or "love hormone" for its role in stimulating emotional responses - plays an important role in Williams syndrome (WS), according to a study published June 12, ...

Neuroscience created Jun 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Better 'mousetrap' discovered in fruit flies might stop human cancer-driving kinase in its tracks

A seemingly obscure gene in the female fruit fly that is only active in cells that will become eggs has led researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research to the discovery of a atypical protein ...

Cancer created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research team disputes evidence of new egg development in mammal ovaries

(Medical Xpress) -- Back in February, a team of researchers led by Jonathan Tilly published a paper in Nature Medicine describing new work that they said backed up research done in 2004 (resulting in a paper published in the ...

Medical research created Jul 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

New genetically engineered mice aid understanding of incurable neuromuscular disease

A team of scientists from the University of Missouri created a genetically modified mouse that mimics key features of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited neuromuscular disease affecting approximately 150,000 people ...

Medical research created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study shows how mitochondrial disease may be prevented

A joint team of scientists from The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has developed a technique that may prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases in children. ...

Medical research created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How major signaling pathways are wired to our genome gives new insight into disease processes

Whitehead Institute scientists have determined that master transcription factors determine the genes regulated by key signaling pathways. In this way, signaling pathways are targeted to genes that are most relevant to each ...

Medical research created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ovum

An ovum (plural ova, from the Latin word ovum meaning egg or egg cell) is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete. Both animals and embryophytes have ova. The term ovule is used for the young ovum of an animal, as well as the plant structure that carries the female gametophyte and egg cell and develops into a seed after fertilization. In lower plants and algae, the ovum is also often called oosphere.

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