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What to do with leftover embryos in fertility clinics?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The majority of infertility patients are in favor of using left-over embryos for stem cell research and would also support selling left-over embryos to other couples, according to a recent survey.





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Largest study of fertility patients shows concerns about embryo disposition

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fertility patients who are done having children feel responsible for the stored, frozen embryos left over from their treatment, yet more than half are against implanting the embryos in anyone else, according to a new study ...


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Frog embryos associate the smell of predators with danger

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in the US and Canada has found that frogs can learn to associate the smell of predators with danger, even as embryos.


Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) but are difficult to identify. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, led ...


Astronauts get extra moving time at space station (AP)

Astronauts get extra moving time at space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are getting some extra moving time.


The skeleton: Size matters

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vertebrates have in common a skeleton made of segments, the vertebrae. During development of the embryo, each segment is added in a time dependent manner, from the head-end to the tail-end: the first segments to be added ...


New research sheds light on key trigger of embryonic stem cell differentiation

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created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clusters of mouse embryonic stem cells called embryoid bodies more closely approximate true embryos in organization and structure than previously thought, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. ...


US lifts some restrictions on embryo stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- When President Barack Obama eased limits on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility ...


US to fund research with some embryonic stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- When President Barack Obama eased limits on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility ...


From frogs to humans, brains form the same way

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created Sep 05, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

It’s a critical juncture in an embryo’s development: the moment that a brain and nervous system begin to form from a mass of unspecialized cells. Scientists had believed that mammals and amphibians, distinctly different animals, ...


IVF insurance coverage yields fewer multiple births, researchers find

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The proportion of in vitro fertilization (IVF) multiple births was lower in the eight states that provide insurance coverage for couples seeking IVF treatment, primarily due to fewer embryos transferred per cycle, Yale School ...



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