University of Idaho, Utah State University team first to clone equine
...nt professor of animal and veterinary science. The baby mule, Idaho Gem, was born May 4. It is the first clone of a hybrid animal. A mule results from a cross between a female horse, a mare, and a male donkey, a jack. As hybrids, mules are sterile, except in extremely rare cases. Veterinary examinations o...European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology annual meeting
...women undergoing IVF still have a good chance of a baby if they have only one embryo transferred? Is there a link between polycystic ovaries and lesbians? Does abstaining from sex mean men have a better chance of success with assisted reproduction? What is the association between having a first-born bo...Prematurity, infections most likely causes of brain damage among infants
...newborns, in six infants with brain damage and one baby without. All of these babies had more serious disease including herpes simplex virus II, pneumonia and pulmonary hypoplasia (underdevelopment of the lungs) or were born prematurely. Co-authors were Karin J. Blakemore, M.D.; Marilee Allen, M.D.;...Women are more likely to suffer recurrent miscarriages if their first child is a boy
...fer subsequent miscarriages than women whose first baby is a girl, an international conference of fertilit...r first pregnancy had given birth to a second live baby by January 2002, compared with 73% of women whose first child was a girl. Amongst a subset of women ...Lead poisoning still threatens albatross chicks on Midway Atoll
...iversity of California, Santa Cruz, has found that baby "gooney birds" are eating lead-based paint chips from buildings around the island, which ironically has been designated a National Wildlife Refuge. The results are representative of a larger problem on old military bases around the world that are bei...Surrogate mothers have no doubts about handing over the baby
... after their pregnancy, or when they hand over the baby to the commissioning parents, researchers told the...e father. The decision about when to hand over the baby was the result of mutual agreement in 31 of the 34 cases (91%). In three cases the surrogate mother ...Specific gene mutations responsible for congenital heart defects
...elopmental anomaly by fixing the problem before a baby is born, said Dr. Deepak Srivastava, associate pro... jumps to 5 percent for parents who already have a baby with congenital heart disease. Other UT Southwestern researchers who worked on the study were Dr. Jo...First West Coast baby born using frozen egg technique
...en human eggs that have resulted in the birth of a baby boy to a Forest Grove couple. It is the first succ...ral fertility procedures in their effort to have a baby of their own. Jennifer was going through in vitro fertilization. In this technique a woman is given ...First West Coast baby born using frozen egg technique
...en human eggs that have resulted in the birth of a baby boy to a Forest Grove couple. It is the first succ...ral fertility procedures in their effort to have a baby of their own. Jennifer was going through in vitro fertilization. In this technique a woman is given ...Not for women only: Osteoporosis in men
...en. Given these data coupled with the aging of the baby boomers, the National Institutes of Health (Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases) in 1999 earmarked nearly $24 million for a mult-year, multi-site study of males over 65 in an effort to identify the prevalence and primary male ri...Study shows enzyme helps guard against Alzheimer's disease
...d to increase significantly in coming years as the baby boomer generation ages. Ever since autopsies of Alzheimer's patients first uncovered bunches of "tangles" in the brain's neurons, investigators have studied the possibility that the overexpression of a gene was responsible for this turn of events. Th...Common nutrients fed to pregnant mice altered their offspring's coat color
...entists showed they could change the coat color of baby mice simply by feeding their mothers four common n... of the cellular differences between the groups of baby mice showed that the extra nutrients reduced the expression of a specific gene, called Agouti, to ca...Estimated 300 children died in the U.S. from shaken baby syndrome last year
... because inflicted head trauma, also called shaken baby syndrome, is one of the leading causes of death du... is the first study of its kind to quantify shaken baby syndrome in the nation's youngest children." A report on the findings appears in the Aug. 6 issue of...Disease-causing genetic mutations in sperm increase with men's age
...hese mutations is more likely to be used to make a baby than normal sperm." While Apert syndrome itself af...mutated sperm are more likely to be used to make a baby than would be expected, the mutation must provide them some competitive advantage over their normal ...UGA scientist to study effect of air quality on unborn babies
...ms in children and adults. But how can it affect a baby inside a mother's womb? Naeher wants to answer this question. In the summer of 2002, Naeher studied the personal air pollution exposure of 45 pregnant women in Trujillo, Peru. His co-investigator was Manuel Aguilar Villalobos, director of the Asociac...Scientists estimate risk of raven predation on desert tortoises
...tificial baits, 2-inch Styrofoam models resembling baby tortoises. From late March through late May, when most raven chicks fledge, the scientists placed a "tortoise bait" each week at 10-15 locations visible overhead to flying ravens, for a total of 100 bait locations throughout an area of about 300 squa...Egg-sharing does not damage a donors own chance of a baby say UK researchers
...nics are not compromising their chance of having a baby by donating some of their eggs, according to UK research published today (Thursday 30 October) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1]. The Lister Fertility Clinic in London, a private clinic that has been running a fo...Danish study finds that taking a long time to conceive is linked to problems at birth
...rmal risk of having a premature birth, a full-term baby with low birthweight[1], or a Caesarean section, according to a large Danish study reported (Thursday 30 October) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[2]. More than one in ten babies are born to infertile[3] couples an...Ethical guidelines needed before 'nutrigenomic' groceries come to market
...ed to genetic make up. A major target will be the baby boomers, reaching their 50s and 60s and trying to forestall the onset of age-related health problems such as heart disease, arthritis, menopausal hot flashes and bone-density loss. But the paper's authors warn against a headlong rush to embrace nut...New ACOG guidelines on progesterone to prevent preterm birth praised by March of Dimes
...t some women at very high risk of having a preterm baby may benefit from treatment with a derivative of the hormone progesterone, according to an opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Obstetric Practice and published this month in ACOG's official jou...