New research by a University of Rhode Island professor suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research, published in the Proceedings ...
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With a growing body of scientific evidence illustrating the influence of gut microbiota on human health, researchers from AIage Life Science, a probiotics manufacturer in China, investigated the microflora inhabiting the ...
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy has been linked to poor growth of the placenta, causing conditions such as fetal growth restriction and low birth weight. Although most women cease drinking once they know they are pregnant, ...
Jun 10, 2019
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In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal ...
Feb 10, 2012
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Despite advances in medicine and technology, childbirth isn't likely to get much easier on women from a biological perspective.
Apr 22, 2021
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A guy pops a little pill just before he expects to get frisky with his girlfriend.
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The results of a study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch may pave the way for a new medicine delivery system that could reduce the incidence of pre-term labor and premature birth by allowing physicians ...
Jan 23, 2021
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Check out your birth certificate and surely you'll see a designation for sex. When you were born, a doctor or clinician assigned you the "male" or "female" label based on a look at your genitalia. In the U.S., this has been ...
Feb 4, 2022
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A new artificial intelligence approach by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators can identify with a great degree of accuracy whether a 5-day-old, in vitro fertilized human embryo has a high potential to progress to a successful ...
Apr 4, 2019
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Biological sex has a small but ubiquitous influence on gene expression in almost every type of human tissue, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine, the University of Chicago and the Centre for Genomic Regulation ...
Sep 10, 2020
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