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Breakthrough for IVF?

Elsevier today announced the publication of a recent study in Reproductive BioMedicine Online on 5-day old human blastocysts showing that those with an abnormal chromosomal composition can be identified by the rate at whic ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Turkish womb transplant woman's pregnancy terminated

Doctors have terminated the pregnancy of a 23-year-old Turkish woman who was the first ever to receive a uterus transplant from a dead donor, a hospital in southern Turkey said on Tuesday.

Obstetrics & gynaecology created May 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Frozen in time: Clarifying laws on IVF embryo use and destruction

Over the past two decades, the frozen preservation of embryos has become routine practice in IVF. What currently happens to embryos next is controlled by overlapping and complicated rules that confuse and ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created May 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Birth rates good after implanting one embryo, study finds

(HealthDay)—Among women who undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) to become pregnant, there is no difference in delivery rates among those implanted with one prescreened embryo compared to those implanted ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created May 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists build a living patch for damaged hearts

Duke University biomedical engineers have grown three-dimensional human heart muscle that acts just like natural tissue. This advancement could be important in treating heart attack patients or in serving as a platform for ...

Medical research created May 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Turkish womb transplant woman 6 weeks pregnant

A hospital says a Turkish woman who became the first person to successfully receive a donor womb is six weeks into a "healthy" pregnancy.

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene controls three different diseases

An international research consortium led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the CIBERER and the University of Wurzburg (Germany) has discovered a gene that can cause three totally different diseases, depending ...

Genetics created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical myth: You can control the sex of your baby

Despite most parents ultimately just wishing for a healthy baby, there are many cultural and social factors that can drive the desire for a baby of a particular sex.

Health created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worlds first womb transplant woman is pregnant

The first woman ever to receive a uterus from a deceased donor, is two-weeks pregnant following a successful embryo transplant, her doctors said on Friday.

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Apr 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cell-destroyer that fights and promotes TB reveals what's behind its split identity

Tumor necrosis factor—normally an infection-fighting substance produced by the body—can actually heighten susceptibility to tuberculosis if its levels are too high. University of Washington TB researchers ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Retinoic acid gradient visualized for the first time in an embryo

In a ground-breaking study, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan report a new technique that allows them to visualize the distribution of retinoic acid in a live zebrafish embryo, in ...

Medical research created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sampling of embryonic DNA after IVF without biopsy

New study published in Reproductive Biomedicine Online shows that fluid-filled cavity in 5-day old human blastocysts may contain DNA from the embryo, allowing diagnosis of genetic disease without a biopsy

Medical research created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Maternal diabetes impairs methylation of imprinted gene in oocytes

For the first time, researchers have shown that poorly controlled maternal diabetes has an adverse effect on methylation of the maternal imprinting gene Peg3, contributing to impaired development in offspring.

Diabetes created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UK: Public OK with creating babies from three people

Britain's fertility regulator says it has found broad public support for in vitro fertilization techniques that allow babies to be created with DNA from three people for couples at risk of passing on potentially fatal genetic ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Secrets of a t-haplotype gene revealed: Decade-long hunt turns up key gene involved in early mammalian development

The t haplotype in mice—a block of linked genes occupying the proximal half of mouse chromosome 17—is one of the best-studied examples of a selfish genetic element. Through an elaborate sperm-poisoning ...

Genetics created Mar 08, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Embryo

An embryo (irregularly from Greek: ἔμβρυον, plural ἔμβρυα, lit. "that which grows," from en- "in" + bryein "to swell, be full"; the proper Latinate form would be embryum) is a multicellular diploid eukaryote in its earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, hatching, or germination. In humans, it is called an embryo until about eight weeks after fertilization (i.e. ten weeks LMP), and from then it is instead called a fetus.

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