Egg-sharing does not damage a donors own chance of a baby say UK researchers
...donated, and the fertilisation, pregnancy and live birth rates. Clinic director and research team leader, M...harers achieved a pregnancy rate of 42% and a live birth rate of 33%, the non-egg sharers achieved a pregnancy rate of 40% and a live birth rate of 30.9%, an...Exercise and healthy weight delay cancer even among women with highest genetic risk
...e women were born before or after 1940, the median birth year in the study. This suggests that even when there is a strong genetic risk present, environmental factors play a vital role in determining when cancer occurs. Women born before 1940 had a 24 percent chance of developing breast cancer by age 50; w...Landmark study offers new information about breast cancer genes
...y the mutation. Findings that relate the date of birth of the subjects to the risk of breast cancer: Women in this study who carried the breast cancer gene born before 1940 developed breast cancer later in life than those born after 1940. Conducted by Dr. Mary-Claire King of the Departments of Medicine ...U-M scientists find genetic 'fountain of youth' for adult stem cells
...-negative and Bmi-1-postive mice immediately after birth and 30 days after birth, they found that the effect of Bmi-1 deficiency on stem cells increased over time. By the time they were one-month-old, it was difficult to detech any neural stem cells in either the central or peripheral nervous systems of th...Alcohol's pharmacological properties, not smell or taste, reinforce its effects
...f brain development, the first 10 days or so after birth for the rat is, very roughly, equivalent to the third trimester of the human fetus," said Elena I. Varlinskaya, associate research professor at Binghamton University and corresponding author for the study. "The extent to which alcohol is considered ...New vaccines may address need to protect newborns in the developing world
...rom most common viral infections immediately after birth by antibodies received from their mothers, these antibodies decline in the first weeks and months of life as the fledgling immune system grows in its capacity to generate its own antibody protections against viruses. Between the waning of maternal-an...Leakey Foundation celebrates 100 years of human origins discovery
...human prehistory. The centennial of Louis Leakey's birth coincides with an unusually productive period in h... will mark the 100th anniversary of Louis Leakey's birth at a two-day Centennial Tribute presented by The Leakey Foundation and held at The Field Museum Oct....New findings in yeast may reveal why growing older is the greatest carcinogen in humans
...lose cells are to death, but how far they are from birth - how many times they've divided. The discovery th...daughters before expiring. The whole process, from birth to death, takes about five days. "When I began I really didn't know how long it would take - how fas...UGA scientist to study effect of air quality on unborn babies
...ution and health problems like preterm births, low birth weights, poor fetal development and mortality, said Luke Naeher, an environmental epidemiologist with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Scientists know the air pollution in large cities can aggravate or cau...SPR Annual Meeting features newsworthy discoveries
... This means studying the brain from conception to birth is now a real possibility. Processing the Nightly News: How shot and story length affect effort, arousal, and encoding -- Samuel D. Bradley, Mija Shin, Zheng Wang, Seungjo Lee, & Annie Lang Television networks looking to secure future viewers for ...Louis Leakey Centennial Tribute
...ded the interdisciplinary approach to studying the birth and development of the human species. Now, dozen... will mark the 100th anniversary of Louis Leakey's birth at a two-day Centennial Tribute presented by The Leakey Foundation and held at The Field Museum Oct....Experimental cancer drugs may halt events that lead to cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
..., cardiac muscle cells largely stop dividing after birth and only then grow larger through hypertrophy. The disease form of hypertrophy is associated with the re-activation of a genetic program that normally stops soon after birth. "Mature heart cells are naturally programmed to be anti-hypertophic, but m...Stem cells delivered into back of eye hold promise for people with retinitis pigmentosa
...ls form during the first three to four weeks after birth and provide blood to the inner two thirds of the retina. In mice that are predisposed to developing retinal eye disease, the outer layer of the retina containing the rods and cones as well as other neuronal layers degenerate within a few weeks after ...Enzyme discovery sheds light on causes of rare disease, cancer
...w failure (aplastic anemia) and is associated with birth defects such as missing or extra thumbs and skeletal abnormalities of the hips, spine or ribs. Many who have FA eventually develop acute myelogenous leukemia and are prone to head and neck, gastrointestinal and other cancers. The first symptoms, such...OHSU scientists uncover key protein for Fanconi anemia, cancer susceptibility
...risk of developing the disorder, which can lead to birth defects, bone marrow failure and increased incidence of cancer, including leukemias and solid tumors. In addition, there is a growing appreciation among scientists that the FA pathway is integrated with the breast-ovarian cancer-susceptibility pathwa...Study finds simple way to reduce HIV transmission from mom to baby
...hild transmission of the virus during gestation or birth or by drinking breast milk, according to UNAIDS an...ourse of AZT in preventing HIV transmission during birth and in the first weeks after birth," says Jackson, who led the study with Francis Mmiro, F.R.C.O.G.,...African American teen mothers have greater risk for low birth weight and premature babies
... American teens are twice as likely to deliver low birth weight babies and 1.5 times more likely to have pr...chool's Center for Human Nutrition (CHN), examined birth outcomes of 1,120 pregnant African American teens age 17 and younger, living in Baltimore, Md. and c...New study provides first linkage of fetal alcohol exposure and enlarged heart
...cause of congenital heart disease. Moreover, low birth weight is linked to a later emergence of cardiovas...ogical adaptations by the fetus that lead to small birth weight. Such adaptations, known as fetal programming, may be beneficial before birth but may also pr...Couch potatoes may be created in the womb, not at the dinner table
...ith impaired fetal development, as children of low birth weight have been shown to develop this disorder in their adult life. However, many reports relating the fetal environment to metabolic disease and adult obesity are confounded as lifestyle influences obscure the linkage between metabolic predisposit......ied a gene called RFX4 that is responsible for the birth defect hydrocephalus in mice. Loss of a single co... study the possible genetic origins of this common birth defect in humans. The gene was discovered when researchers noticed that pups in one line of trans...