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Largest study of PGD children shows embryo biopsy is safe for singleton pregnancies
Dec 22, 2009 |
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The largest and longest running study of children born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening has shown that embryo biopsy does not adversely affect the health of babies born as the result of a subsequent singleton ...
'Scrawny' gene keeps stem cells healthy
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stem cells are the body's primal cells, retaining the youthful ability to develop into more specialized types of cells over many cycles of cell division. How do they do it? Scientists at the ...
Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. ...
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Rabbit eggs may be used for stem cells
Jan 13, 2006 |
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Scientists in Scotland are planning to create animal-human embryos cloned from human skin cells and unfertilized rabbit eggs.
100 million women in the prime of their lives have endometriosis
Aug 31, 2009 |
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The World Endometriosis Research Foundation (WERF) and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) are proud to announce the first ever prospective study to assess the hidden cost of endometriosis to ...
Scientists deconstruct cell division
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes ...
Women with endometriosis need special care during pregnancy to avoid risk of premature birth
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The largest study to date of endometriosis in pregnant women has found that the condition is a major risk factor for premature birth, the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology ...
Stranger homicide by people with schizophrenia is rare -- and unpredictable
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 12, 2009 |
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International study led by Sydney researchers shows homicides of strangers by people with schizophrenia are exceptionally rare and unpredictable events
ICSI or IVF: Babies born from frozen embryos do just as well
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) do just as well as those born from ...
Will IVF work for a particular patient? The answer may be found in her blood
Jul 01, 2009 |
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For the first time, researchers have been able to identify genetic predictors of the potential success or failure of IVF treatment in blood. Dr. Cathy Allen, from the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, told the 25th annual ...
Stem cell surprise for tissue regeneration (w/ Podcast)
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Scientists working at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, with colleagues, have overturned previous research that identified critical genes for making muscle stem cells. It turns out that ...
Inject rational argument into embryo debate, says expert
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May 16, 2008 |
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In the week that the UK parliament debates controversial amendments to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, Professor John Burn asks at what point a cell becomes a human.
Deafness may be struck from embryo bill
Apr 14, 2008 |
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Deafness may soon not fall into the category of serious medical conditions when it comes to embryo-screening procedures in Britain.
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