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Embryonic stem cells shift metabolism in cancer-like way upon implanting in uterus

Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, Seattle researchers report today. These stem cells start using ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fish placenta is unfavourable survival strategy

Fish with a placenta struggle to adapt to rapid changes in the food supply. They probably evolved in a stable, food-rich environment. As ecosystems change under the influence of humans, they are experiencing greater difficulty ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Swedish model slashes multiple-birth risk in IVF pregnancies

Swedish doctors on Monday presented a new method they said dramatically reduces the risk of multiple births from in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) without affecting chances of having a baby.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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First mother-daughter womb transplant planned

The world's first mother-daughter uterus transplant could take place next year in Sweden, the head of an international research team in the western Swedish city of Gothenburg said Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mother's obesity may lead to infertility in the next generation

Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a publication of The Endocrine Society, reports that mice whose mothers had low ghrelin levels were less f ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Active management of the third stage of labor reduces risk of bleeding

Active management of the third stage of labour means that women lose less blood than with a more expectant approach, reveals a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in conjunction with Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery opens new window on development, and maybe potential, of human egg cells

Fertility procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) require a couple and the doctor to place the risky bet that the multiple eggs they choose to fertilize will produce an embryo that will thrive in the uterus. Researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Too many sisters affect male sexuality

Growing up with lots of sisters makes a man less sexy. For rats, anyway. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that the sex ratio of a male rat's family ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Baby born from embryo frozen almost 20 years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- A healthy baby has been born from an embryo that was kept frozen for nearly 20 years, smashing the previous record of 13 years. The new baby is a biological sibling of a child born to the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

New discovery may help to identify the healthiest embryos in IVF treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian scientists have developed a potentially groundbreaking new measure of the health of an embryo and the likelihood of a successful pregnancy in IVF treatment.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study offers first explanation of how cells rapidly repair and maintain structure

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have discovered that a protein, zyxin, is necessary for the maintenance and repair of the cell's cytoskeleton, or internal framework, which serves as ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Doctors look for orange-size lump, find 56-pounder

(AP) -- Doctors were shocked when they looked into a woman's uterus searching for an orange-size tumor but found something that resembled a giant rock instead.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The mating game is far more complicated than X and Y

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Adelaide research reveals that a man's sperm does far more than fertilise an egg in the womb.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Sex of baby drives response to pregnancy stress

University of Adelaide research is showing that the sex of the baby determines the way it responds to stressors during pregnancy and its ability to survive pregnancy complications.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exposure to BPA may cause permanent fertility defects, researchers find

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Uterus

The uterus (Latin word for womb) is a major female hormone-responsive reproductive sex organ of most mammals, including humans. It is within the uterus that the foetus develops during gestation. The term uterus is used consistently within the medical and related professions; the Germanic term, womb is more common in everyday usage. The plural of uterus is uteruses or uteri.

One end, the cervix, opens into the vagina; the other is connected on both sides to the Fallopian tubes.

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