Big, old fish key to restoring groundfish stocks
...earlier, which sometimes better coordinates larval birth with peak food availability. A marine ecosystem routinely has more than 99 percent mortality of fish larvae due to predation, starvation and fluctuating ocean conditions. So anything that helps young larvae pass through their most vulnerable lifestyl...First birth using PGD to save baby from rhesus blood disease
... its mother. Their pioneering work resulted in the birth of a healthy baby girl in November 2003 to a coupl...in Australia. "We can treat affected babies before birth by intravascular transfusions and achieve a survival rate of between 70% and 95% depending on circum...The Cochrane Library Newsletter, 2005, Issue 1
... low birthweight infants warm within 10 minutes of birth minimises the risk of cold stress and decrease the incidence of hypothermia. The Cochrane authors highlight good practice guidlines and recommend using interventions such as plastic wraps, skin-to-skin contact and transwarmer mattresses. ------------...Parents' attitudes to sperm donation still some concerns about being open
... may also have made their decision long before the birth of the child when attitudes were more inclined to secrecy. Dr Lycett said that although the sample of parents could not be considered representative of DI parents as a whole, the findings suggested a marked proportion of parents recognised the import...Multi-purpose protein regulates new protein synthesis and immune cell development
... that mice lacking both copies of IRE1 died before birth and had fewer hematopoietic stem cells precursor cells which develop into many different types of blood and immune cells than normal mice. Zhang transplanted hematopoietic stem cells from IRE1 knock-out embryos into mice whose bone marrow had been...Key mechanism in genetic inheritance during cell division identified
...egregation during mitosis contribute to cancer and birth defects. Fromvarious genetic experiments we know that the activity of a 10-protein complex of kinetochores, called Dam1, is responsible for the faithful segregation of chromosomes during mitosis. While we don't know at this time that ring formation ...New neurons born in adult rat cortex
...ing that antidepressants may act by triggering the birth of new neurons in the adult hippocampus,* the brai...ers found that the cortex and striatum were giving birth to new, widely scattered small cells, called interneurons, that make and secrete GABA, a neurotransm...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2005
...s of the face and skull rank among the most common birth defects in humans. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are taking a systems biology approach to the problem, investigating a series of eight mutant mouse strains that could serve as animal models for deciphering the complex molecular interac...Premature births from inflammation and infection rapidly detected by proteomics technology
...m inflammation and infection and lead to premature birth can be rapidly and accurately detected in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women using proteomics technology, Yale researchers report in two studies in the February issue of British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Using proteomics science, the Ya...Fourth Stowers researcher awarded Basil O'Connor Award
...ose work promises insight into the causes of human birth defects. Dr. Li is the fourth Stowers researcher t...e search for better means of preventing and curing birth defects." Dr. Li's research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms and genetic pathways ...Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge
...s or environmental stressors before or just after birth may foster susceptibility to neuropsychiatric and ...ses early in life, especially the first week after birth in rats, they may be involved in the ability to learn and remember, possibly via some link (says Bil...Study finds markers for premature birth risk at the molecular level
...ematurely every year, and the problem of premature birth increasing, the need for tools that can identify preterm delivery risk has never been greater, experts say. The news was announced today at the 25th annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting here. "We studied the amniotic fluid of thr...JCI Table of Contents, March 1, 2005
...me can be attributed to the difference between the birth and death rates of the cells, according to the stu...eukemia cells. Chiorazzi and his team calculated birth and death rates of the leukemic cells and found that, contrary to expectations, production and destr...Scientists disprove two tenets of common leukemia
...me can be attributed to the difference between the birth and death rates of the cells, according to the stu...ion between poorer patient outcomes and the faster birth rates of the leukemia cells, regardless of the rate of cell death. "This particular finding may prov...The very unexpected life and death of a leukemic cell
...me can be attributed to the difference between the birth and death rates of the cells, according to the stu...eukemia cells. Chiorazzi and his team calculated birth and death rates of the leukemic cells and found that, contrary to expectations, production and destr...Prior caesarean delivery not linked to increased risk of stillbirth
...ters for Disease Control and Prevention's combined birth and death certificates from 1995 to 1997. They used a statistical analysis method called Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel to determine the odds of fetal death after prior caesarean section. "We used a much larger data set of 250,000 patients than the Britis...UC researchers discover gene that causes heavy metal poisoning
... Cadmium--a heavy metal suspected of causing human birth defects, lung cancer and testicular cancer--is fou... nonessential heavy metal) in gasoline resulted in birth defects, mental retardation, loss of balance and other brain, kidney, liver or lung damage. Since th...From Mars to Maryland: 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting spotlights
...n 5,000 babies who are classified as "intersex" at birth because of conditions that affect their chromosomes, genitalia, reproductive systems and other traits. News on rapidly disappearing fish species, and how best to protect various forms of marine life, from fish to endangered whales, before it's too l...Are IVF embryos starved of a vital ingredient?
...ly to have a low birthweight and to die soon after birth (New Scientist, 23 October 2004, p 10). Could these problems have something to do with the process of IVF or ICSI, such as growing the embryos in a dish for two to five days? Growth media have been developed by trial and error, and contain only a few......r not mutations in this gene that are present from birth might increase an individuals susceptibility to prostate cancer. John Martignetti, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics at Mount Sinai and colleagues addressed this question by analyzing differences in the KLF6 gene in 3,411 blood samples f...