News tagged with frozen embryos


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 ...


Who gets the frozen embryos when a couple splits?

Frozen assets: Who gets the embryos when a couple splits?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Divorcing couples have always fought over property, income and custody of children. But technology has added an even more contentious item to the list: the frozen embryos the couple created ...





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Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.


Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...


Tiny injector to speed development of new, safer, cheaper drugs

Tiny injector to speed development of new, safer, cheaper drugs

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering organisms, and to better control in-vitro fertilization.


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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.


Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 3

By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.


Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .


Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power ...


Of mice and men: Stem cells and ethical uncertainties

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The recent creation of live mice from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) not only represents a remarkable scientific achievement, but also raises important issues, according to bioethicists at The Johns Hopkins University's ...


Life's Ancient Island in the Ice

Life's Ancient Island in the Ice

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 3

During the last ice age, massive glaciers covered much of our planet. However, a region of Alaska, Siberia and the Canadian Yukon remained ice-free. This region, known as Beringia, supported unique organisms ...


Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.



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