Researchers have completed the first laboratory model of
the human female reproductive cycle
Not exact matches
At Key Stage 3 (age 11 to 13 +, Years 7 to 9) schools have to teach: that fertilisation in
humans and flowering plants is the fusion of a male and a
female cell; about the physical and emotional changes that take place during adolescence; about the
human reproductive system, including the menstrual cycle and fertilization; how the foetus develops in the uterus, including the role of the placenta.
The one - flesh unity of spouses is possible because
human (like other mammalian) males and
females, by mating, unite organically — they form a single
reproductive principle.
«During development, both male and
female embryos start out having certain fetal tissue called the Müllerian duct mesenchyme,» said Jose Teixeira, professor of
reproductive biology in the College of
Human Medicine and lead author of the federally funded study.
In
human terms, it'd be as if the asexual
females could produce children at 13 years of age, whereas the sexual
females wouldn't reach
reproductive age until age 18.
Female promiscuity — something that occurs in a majority of species, including
humans — results in the ejaculates from two or more males overlapping within her
reproductive tract.
In
humans and other mammals, the
female reproductive cells — the eggs or oocytes — need nourishment in order to grow and remain fertile.
Dr Kristensen comments, «Although this may not be a severe impairment to fertility, it is still of real concern since data from three different labs all independently found that paracetamol may disrupt
female reproductive development in this way, which indicates further investigation is needed to establish how this affects
human fertility.»
Caspari's findings add to the growing support for the grandmother hypothesis, which suggests that
human females (unlike those of most species) live far past their
reproductive years because their presence aids their grandchildren.
Montreal — In
humans and other mammals, the
female reproductive cells — the eggs or oocytes — need nourishment in order to grow and remain fertile.
Although we stray from the path more often than we care to admit,
human society is all about the age - old business of boy meets girl and sets up home under a roof, so much so that it explains such things as the size of our testicles, the manifest oddities of the
female reproductive system, and why we prefer to have sex in private.
This percentage is low given the growing knowledge base indicating that physiology and pathophysiology differ between male and
female animals and
humans beyond
reproductive function to include all physiological systems,» according to the editorial.
Scientists publishing in Nature Communications report that they have developed a mini working replica of the
female reproductive tract using
human and mouse tissue.
«This is an important advance in explaining how sperm become hypermotile in the
female reproductive tract,» said Stuart Moss, Ph.D, director of the male
reproductive health program at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, which funded the study.
«Until the past decade, we all accepted this notion that
human female sexuality was radically different from sexuality in all of these other animal species — that, unlike other species,
human female sexuality was somehow walled off from
reproductive hormones,» Haselton said.
There have been
reproductive toxicology studies with
female rats where they were given up to 80 times the concentrated used clinically in
humans, showing no difference in offspring compared with the rats given none.
The
reproductive (estrus) cycle of the dog differs from that of a
female human in a couple of ways.
Jeffrey Parker and colleagues, in a study of teen friendships published in 2005, challenged psychologists David Buss and Todd Shackelford's theory that jealousy has evolved as a
human emotion because of the different
reproductive challenges faced by males and
females.