News tagged with embryo selection

German parliament OKs genetic embryo tests

(AP) -- After an emotional debate, German lawmakers voted Thursday to allow a procedure that looks for genetic disorders in embryos before they are implanted in the womb.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bioethicists lead call for public debates on future uses of stem cells

More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy makers and the public to begin developing guidelines for the research and reproductive use of stem cell-derived ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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How the zebra got its stripes

If there was a 'Just So' story for how the zebra got its stripes, I'm sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage explanation. But would he have come up with the explanation that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain

Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists illuminate cancer cells' survival strategy

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered key elements of a strategy commonly used by tumor cells to survive when they spread to distant organs. The finding could lead to drugs that could inhibit ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stellar embryos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars form as gravity coalesces the gas and dust in interstellar clouds until the material produces clumps dense enough to become stars. But precisely how this happens, and whether or not ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New practice model may reduce miscarriage after assisted reproduction

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services today announced the publication of an article in the December issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Online about miscar ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel technique could help boost IVF success and reduce multiple pregnancies

A new technique successfully used in mice to identify embryos likely to result in a successful pregnancy could be used in humans, potentially boosting IVF success rates and helping to reduce the number of multiple births ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do you mend a broken heart?

Damaged heart tissue is not known for having much inherent capacity for repair. But now, scientists are closing in on signals that may be able to coax the heart into producing replacement cardiac muscle cells. Using a zebrafish ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds iPS cells match embryonic stem cells in modeling human disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have shown that iPS cells, viewed as a possible alternative to human embryonic stem cells, can mirror the defining defects of a genetic condition — ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover that changes in bioelectric signals cause tadpoles to grow eyes in back, tail

For the first time, scientists have altered natural bioelectrical communication among cells to directly specify the type of new organ to be created at a particular location within a vertebrate organism. Using ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Stem cell research in the UK reaches significant milestone

Stem cell scientists at King's College London will today announce they have submitted to the UK Stem Cell Bank (UKSCB) their first clinical grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines that are free from animal-derived products, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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