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How neonatal plant estrogen exposure leads to adult infertility

A paper published today in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press describes the effects of brief prenatal exposure to plant estrogens on the mouse oviduct, modeling the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants ...

Medical research created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan study raises hopes of cure for baldness

Japanese researchers have successfully grown hair on hairless mice by implanting follicles created from stem cells, they announced Wednesday, sparking new hopes of a cure for baldness.

Medical research created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

French firm blamed for Italy frozen embryo accident

An Italian hospital director on Monday blamed French industrial gas giant Air Liquide for an accident in an assisted reproduction lab last week that destroyed 94 embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen.

Other created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Artificial thymus tissue enables maturation of immune cells

The thymus plays a key role in the body's immune response. It is here where the T lymphocytes or T cells, a major type of immune defence cells, mature. Different types of T cells, designated to perform specific ...

Immunology created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover key component in the mother's egg critical for survival of newly formed embryo

An international team led by scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) discovered that a protein, called TRIM28, normally present in the mother’s egg, is essential right after fertilization, to ...

Genetics created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA may probe TX firm that held Perry's stem cells

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has received a complaint against a company that stored adult stem cells from Texas Governor Rick Perry for use in an experimental procedure to treat his back pain.

Other created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists discover primitive gut's role in left-right patterning

Scientists have found that the gut endoderm has a significant role in propagating the information that determines whether organs develop in the stereotypical left-right pattern. Their findings are published 6 March 2012 in ...

Medical research created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Artificial 'womb' unlocks secrets of early embryo development

(Medical Xpress) -- Pioneering work by a leading University of Nottingham scientist has helped reveal for the first time a vital process in the development of the early mammalian embryo.

Medical research created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify crucial cell and signaling pathway in placental blood stem cell niche

(Medical Xpress) -- UCLA stem-cell researchers have identified a certain type of cell and a signaling pathway in the placental niche that play a key role in stopping blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood ...

Medical research created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Increased fertility rate for IVF patients achieved by new equipment design

A novel system for processing embryos during IVF treatment has been shown to significantly improve the chances of pregnancy – by more than a quarter.

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds new genes that cause Baraitser-Winter syndrome, a brain malformation

Scientists from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington, in collaboration with the Genomic Disorders Group Nijmegen in the Netherlands, have identified two new genes that cause Baraitser-Winter ...

Genetics created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New test can better predict successful IVF embryos, scientists say

Scientists at University College Dublin have discovered a new way of measuring the potential success rate of an embryo before it is transferred back into the womb during in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Live from the thymus: T-cells on the move

T-cells are the immune system's security force. They seek out pathogens and rogue cells in the body and put them out of action. Their precursors are formed in the bone marrow and migrate from there into the ...

Medical research created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists use an old theory to discover new targets in the fight against breast cancer

Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have ...

Cancer created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SUMO-snipping protein plays crucial role in T and B cell development

When SUMO grips STAT5, a protein that activates genes, it blocks the healthy embryonic development of immune B cells and T cells unless its nemesis breaks the hold, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...

Genetics created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast