News tagged with reproductive machinery
Protein from algae shows promise for stopping SARS
May 20, 2009 |
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A protein from algae may have what it takes to stop Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) infections, according to new research. A recent study has found that mice treated with the protein, Griffithsin (GRFT), had a 100 ...
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Fetal study highlights impact of stress on male fertility
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Exposure to a combination of excess stress hormones and chemicals while in the womb could affect a man's fertility in later life, a study suggests.
No test needed for hand-foot genital syndrome in women without HOXA13 gene mutation
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale, and colleagues have found that women without mutations of the HOXA13 gene do not need to be subjected to x-rays ...
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Scientists reveal a protein's role in enabling AIDS virus to reproduce
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 23, 2008 |
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A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has discovered new details about how a simian strain of the AIDS virus replicates. The findings are significant because they suggest new strategies to prevent replication, ...
Workplace BPA exposure increases risk of male sexual dysfunction
Nov 11, 2009 |
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High levels of workplace exposure to Bisphenol-A may increase the risk of reduced sexual function in men, according to a Kaiser Permanente study appearing in the journal Human Reproduction.
Researchers describe for first time how some bacteria kill males: They first invade the mother
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many groups of bacteria are known as "male killers" -- they target and kill just the males of a host species. Now, a Cornell scientist has helped describe for the first time just how certain ...
IVF insurance coverage yields fewer multiple births, researchers find
Oct 20, 2009 |
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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 ...
Environmental chemicals found in breast milk and high incidence of testicular cancer
Sep 24, 2009 |
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A comparison of breast milk samples from Denmark and Finland revealed a significant difference in environmental chemicals which have previously been implicated in testicular cancer or in adversely affecting development of ...
Scientists discover a mechanism that can send cells on the road to cancer
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Using a common virus as a tool for investigating abnormal cell proliferation, a team led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has succeeded in clarifying an intricate series of biochemical steps that shed ...
Hope for men with nonobstructive infertility
Dec 03, 2009 |
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It has been thought that men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), a lack of sperm in the semen not caused by an obstruction within the reproductive system, are poor candidates for IVF. Now, researchers writing in the open ...
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