Sentences with phrase «produce viable eggs»

Dawn Whitwell writes of failing to produce a viable egg for infertile friends, and yet creating a relationship with the child they have through another donor.

They were also behaviorally similar, acting like bold, active males — even as they produced viable eggs.

Not exact matches

Most eggs, and most embryos, do not have what it takes to produce a viable pregnancy.

The causes of infertility, which affects around 10 % of couples, are often unknown, but may in some cases result from the body's inability to produce viable gametes — also known as sperm and egg cells.

They simply used the jellyfish gene, which is easily detected, to test whether inserting foreign genes into eggs (so - called germline gene alteration) can produce viable monkeys.

How viable the eggs may be remains to be seen, but the ultimate hope is that they be could be used to produce an infinite, affordable supply of embryonic stem cells.

The bald eagle was nearly extinct in the continental U.S. by the late 20th century, but the population has since stabilized, primarily due to habitat protection and a ban on DDT, an insecticide that weakened the birds» eggs so much that the eagles could not produce viable offspring.

He is quick to add, however, that even though the old female mice with newly viable eggs were allowed to cavort with young, studly mice, they did not produce offspring.

AMH is proportional to the number of viable eggs left in the ovaries, which produce the hormone, says James A. Grifo, MD, PhD, program director of the NYU Langone Fertility Center, in New York City.

Although on a smaller scale than country farms, producing vegetables, meat, eggs, mushrooms and other food products in cities can yield significant returns and often requires less financial investment, making the activity viable to a larger number of people.

Based on the comments on that piece, it seemed to resonate with the treehugging green burial crowd, so I'm happy to announce that Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, the designers behind Capsula Mundi, are moving forward with this project, with the aim of developing a viable full - sized industrial prototype of the «egg» and producing molds for the eco-coffin by sometime next year.