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Researchers build 'artificial ovary' to develop oocytes into mature human eggs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital have invented the first artificial human ovary, an advance that provides a potentially powerful new means for conducting fertility ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

From embryonic stem cells, a sperm replacement and easier path to genetic modification

Researchers reporting in the April 27 issue of the journal Cell have devised a new and improved method for producing genetically modified animals for use in scientific research. The method relies on haploi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Head and body lice appear to be the same species, genetic study finds

A new study offers compelling genetic evidence that head and body lice are the same species. The finding is of special interest because body lice can transmit deadly bacterial diseases, while head lice do ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Genetics work could lead to advances in fertility for women

Princeton scientists have identified genes responsible for controlling reproductive life span in worms and found they may control genes regulating similar functions in humans.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Why the biological clock? Study says aging reduces centromere cohesion, disrupts reproduction

University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an abnormal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Infectious virus hidden in chromosomes during latency can be passed from parents to children

Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infects nearly 100 percent of humans in early childhood, and the infection then lasts for the rest of a person's life. Now, a team led by Peter Medveczky, MD, a professor in the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

S.Korea lifts ban on stem cell research

South Korea on Wednesday conditionally lifted a ban on stem cell research using human eggs, three years after outlawing the practice because a scientist was found to have faked his work.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animal eggs not suitable substitutes to produce stem cells

Since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep over a decade ago, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been considered a promising way to generate human, patient-specific stem cells for therapeutic applications. The shortage of ...

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Disgraced Korean scientist unveils cloned coyotes

Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk unveiled eight cloned coyotes Monday in a project sponsored by a provincial government.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A procedure used in preconception diagnosis can lead to problems with pregnancies

A new study demonstrates that a procedure used in preconception diagnosis to identify eggs that are free of genetic disease might not work well in all cases. The research, published by Cell Press in the April issue of the ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Test tube laureates

Robert G. Edwards, the "father of the test tube baby," won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yesterday for developing in vitro fertilization, a process involving the fertilization of human eggs out ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers Generate Mature Egg Cells From Early Ovarian Follicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have for the first time activated mouse egg cells at the earliest stage of their development and brought them to maturity. In a related experiment, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Studies of women's attitudes to 'social egg freezing' find reasons differ with age

Women of different ages differ in their reasons for wishing to undergo egg freezing, show two studies presented to the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday). A large ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New molecule identified in DNA damage response

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution places the highest premium on reproduction, natural selection’s only standard for biological success. In the case of replicating cells, life spares no expense to ensure that the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cell pioneers among Nobel Prize candidates

(AP) -- Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.

Biology / Biotechnology

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