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Scientists now able to view critical aspects of mammalian embryonic development using new technique

A novel approach in the study of the development of mammalian embryos was today reported in the journal Nature Communications. The research, from the laboratory of Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

British fertility clinic raffling human egg

A British fertility clinic said Sunday it was raffling off a human egg this week to promote its "baby profiling" service, which it insists is legal under UK law.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 14, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Protecting cells from their neighbors

Almost all organisms evolve from a single cell, a fertilised egg. In the first hours after fertilisation, the fate of its future development is determined. It is dictated by the separation of cells that will become sperm ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Female bugs overcome cost of traumatic sex

(Phys.org) -- The study of “sexual conflict” between males and females helps us to understand why sexual reproduction persists given that it can be costly, especially to females. One aspect of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Egg Cetera #3: Take thirty Eggs, fifteen whites, beat them well?

In the third report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, Dr Joe Moshenska delves into Sir Kenelm Digby’s fantastical and exotic 17th-century recipes and finds an early champion of cooking ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Egg Cetera #1: The immortal egg

In the first report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, biologists Dr. Harry Leitch and Professor Azim Surani describe how advances in understanding egg development could transform reproductive ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sustainability threatened by rising demand for livestock products

Global demand for meat, milk and eggs has tripled in the past four decades and is expected to double by 2050. Increased global livestock production has great impacts on the environment and increases global warming. A major ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Coral embryos clone themselves

Forming a unique part of the animal kingdom, corals have built the only living entity visible from space; the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have recently ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists reveal how females store sperm for decades

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that all sorts of females – from birds to reptiles to insects – have a nifty trick to prolong the lifespan of sperm, letting them store it for weeks, months ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Meet the polygamous birds that don’t hang around

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University have established a mathematical model that goes some way to explain the very strange mating behaviour of the tiny Penduline tit.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Family composition determines success of great tit parents

Great tits who have as many sons as daughters acquire more grandchildren than great tits with an uneven family composition. That is because their children are reproductively more successful concludes NWO researcher Reinder ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Bird flu batters South African ostrich farms

Once filled with hundreds of ostriches, the fields of the Klein Karoo are strangely empty.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mosquitoes can't spot a spermless mate

A female mosquito cannot tell if the male that she has mated with is fertile or 'spermless' and unable to fertilise her eggs, according to a new study from scientists at Imperial College London.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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