Surrogate’s nightmare borne out of inadequate Canadian laws, some say
Surrogate Cathleen Hachey was three centimetres dilated when the intended parents for the twins she was carrying inside her announced they wouldn’t be coming for the babies.See original...
View ArticleCan you inherit a long life?
Parents may be passing more to their offspring than their DNA. A new study shows some worms pass along non-genetic changes that extend the lives of their babies up to 30 percent.The rest is here:Can...
View ArticleClues to common birth defect found in gene expression data
ScienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2012) — Researchers at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), The Jackson Laboratory and other institutes have uncovered 27 new candidate genes for congenital diaphragmatic...
View ArticleChandra Wilson: Dr. Bailey 'Trying A New Thing' With Dr. Warren On...
“Grey's Anatomy” celebrates Valentine's Day this week on the ABC drama and Chandra Wilson, who plays Dr. Miranda Bailey, said her character is continuing to heat things up with Jason George's Dr. Ben...
View ArticleMedical practice: Michigan State University launches regional campus for...
Every doctor has to start somewhere. Now they can make it MidMichigan Health. The health care system welcomed its first class of medical students from the Michigan State University College of Human...
View ArticleTo fix a heart, doctors train girl's body to grow new part
Four-year-old Angela Irizarry was born with a single pumping chamber in her heart, a potentially lethal defect. To fix the problem, Angela is growing a new blood vessel in her body in an experimental...
View Article16th-century Korean mummy provides clue to hepatitis B virus genetic code
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2012) The discovery of a mummified Korean child with relatively preserved organs enabled an Israeli-South Korean scientific team to conduct a genetic analysis on a liver biopsy...
View ArticleBlood Test May Spot Genetic Disease in Fetuses
New Test Uses Mom’s Blood, Dad’s Saliva to Determine Baby’s Genetic Code June 6, 2012 — Samples of blood and saliva from parents-to-be may help identify thousands of genetic disorders in fetuses soon...
View ArticleThe Chemistry of Love
Take this all with a grain of salt, but a book being published next month by Current/Penguin, The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction, argues that all the sexy, impatient,...
View ArticleRapid test pinpoints newborns' genetic diseases in days
Babies with genetic disorders can have their whole genome screened for muations in just two days. Taylor S. Kennedy/ Getty Images A faster DNA sequencing machine and streamlined analysis of the...
View Articleblood banks | Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Could Be an Investment in Our...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO8VqSHvhjQblood banks | Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Could Be an Investment in Our Future Healthwww.cordbloodrecommendation.com Researchers are hopeful that within five years,...
View ArticleWhere Babies Will Come From – Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnrUDTpHJ4Where Babies Will Come FromThe Future of Reproduction Human reproduction has long been a preoccupation of ethicists, scientists and science fiction, from the...
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