Pregnancy May Accelerate Biological Ageing In Young Women, Says Study
It is unknown how rapid ageing will affect women’s health and death as they grow old. Women make a lot of sacrifices for their children. Now, a new study has …
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This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born
Walk me through your own decision to do this—to use Orchid’s technology on yourself. I mean, I started the company because I wanted to test my own embryos. Because of …
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to use a back-up form of birth …
How to Spot Abortion-Related Misinformation
In the case of the Polish research into mifepristone and misoprostol detection, it’s hard to see how people who need abortions would benefit from such a test. Even a person …
‘Embryo Models’ Challenge the Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an ‘Embryo’
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Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was published shortly before the paper from …
An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo
The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to better understand the role ancient retroviruses play in early embryonic …