Sentences with phrase «developing human fetus»

«In a developing human fetus, this stage is a critical gateway, when subplate neuron circuits are the most abundant.»

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If they developed artificial wombs, that were capable of gestating a human fetus, or if we developed the ability to transplant a fetus from one woman to another, those would be analagous, and would present other options instead of abortion.

Rarely do pro-choice activists any longer describe the fetus as something less than a developing human life or treat the relationship of the fetus to its mother in terms of property rights.

Religious people (I would so describe myself) may argue that once a fetus starts to develop, it is for God, not human beings, to decide whether the fetus survives and how long it lives.

«Very low doses [of BPA]-- below the amounts that are present in humans — when, particularly, exposure occurs in fetuses and newborns, you end up with those babies eventually developing prostate cancer, breast cancer.

Since the first human brain organoids were created from stem cells in 2013, scientists have gotten them to form structures like those in the brains of fetuses, to sprout dozens of different kinds of brain cells, and to develop abnormalities like those causing neurological diseases such as Timothy syndrome.

This prenatal work is part of a growing body of research to better understand how the human brain develops across its lifespan, from fetus to old age.

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

After 12 and a half days, which roughly corresponds to the second trimester in humans, all of the mouse fetuses with the interferon receptor had died, while those without it continued to develop.

In human fetuses, antibodies from the mother's egg and others that pass across the placenta help build its developing immune system.

At the July meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid, scientists were horrified — and transfixed — by two presentations: one that explored adding cells to developing embryos and another that outlined a process of growing egg cells from aborted human fetHuman Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid, scientists were horrified — and transfixed — by two presentations: one that explored adding cells to developing embryos and another that outlined a process of growing egg cells from aborted human fethuman fetuses.

«Since these antibodies have exceptional safety profiles in humans and cross the placenta, this combination could be rapidly developed to protect uninfected pregnant women and their fetuses,» he said.

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

«This is one of the first papers to take individual fetuses and look at the naturally developing default mode network in the human fetal brain,» says Vinay Pai, Ph.D., director of the Division of Health Informatics Technologies at NIBIB.

The small, stumpy Y chromosome — possessed by male mammals but not females, and often shrugged off as doing little more than determining the sex of a developing fetus — may impact human biology in a big way.

These cells, which scientists hope to develop into a variety of transplantable tissues, are derived from aborted fetuses and «spare» human embryos in fertility clinics.

Scientists at The Ohio State University have developed a nearly complete human brain in a dish that equals the brain maturity of a five - week - old fetus.

The same technique — injecting pluripotent stem cells into early embryos — failed with other combinations: The scientists couldn't create rat - pig chimeras, and although they produced human - cow chimeric embryos, they did not transfer them into cows to develop into fetuses.

Within a few days, that single cell divides over and over again until it forms a blastocyst, a hollow ball of 150 to 200 cells that give rise to every single cell type a human body needs to survive, including the umbilical cord and the placenta that nourishes the developing fetus.

Inappropriate hormone levels can have a devastating effect on the developing human brain, especially during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy when the fetus depends on the mother's thyroid hormones for brain development.