Sentences with phrase «such as embryos»

This symposium will describe empirical work on intrinsic propensities of multicellular entities such as embryos and organ primordia of animals and plants to assume stereotypical forms.

We are striving very hard to limit the number of twins, and eliminate the occurrence of higher order multiples (see below) using techniques such as embryo selection and blastocyst transfers, and the introduction of «elective single embryo transfer».

Not exact matches

According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells.»

Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

The clinic also screens embryos for «albinism or other ocular pigmentation disorders» as well as a range of genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome and haemophilia.Eugenics is fine, as long as you don't alter eye and hair colour.

That balance has changed considerably in the past few years, as alternative avenues of stem - cell science have opened up and it increasingly seems like whatever therapeutic potential such cells may someday have could be explored and achieved without the destruction of embryos.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

In the ancient debates, scientists and philosophers used criteria such as reaction to stimuli, modes of nutrition, and origin of motion to determine when the embryo receives a soul and can be considered a person.

Now, it has become a mechanism for crass eugenics, such as using embryo or egg selection not just for health, but for hair color, intelligence, etc..

Icons of evolution such as Haeckel's embryos, peppered moths, and classic origin «of «life experiments have been shown to be more mythic than scientific, even though they still live as textbook orthodoxy.

President Obama sidestepped that piece of legislation when he opened up more embryo - stem - cell research, but the legislation remains on the statute book, and as such the judge in August ruled as he did.

For some sixty years biochemists hunted for a single molecule or groups of molecules that might be responsible for «organizing» the development of the parts of the embryo such as legs and eyes.

This is true of cases such as ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo becomes stuck in the fallopian tube and part of the tube has to be removed (usually along with the embryo) to prevent the woman from dying or in the case of pre-eclampsia at the other end of pregnancy.

There are a few points in the book in which it would appear that the authors depart from their own sense of what is licit and illicit out of deferrence to certain academic Catholic bioethicists who persist in arguing for the permissibility of so - called «borderline» assisted reproductive techniques such as Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Artificial Insemination by Husband (AIH) or insist that the Church may still allow for so - called embryo adoption.

Genetic engineering may one day eradicate potential diseases within the embryo, but, frighteningly, they may also be unleashed to enhance the eventual child's capacities, such as for greater intelligence or beauty.

If there is a problem in the genetic makeup of your sperm or eggs, assistive reproductive technologies, such as screening the embryo before implantation, can help you achieve a viable pregnancy.

Those numbers will likely climb higher as women gain more control over their fertility with reproductive technologies such as IVF, egg freezing, and ovary and embryo transplants.

The IVF refund plan states that if patients do not achieve a live birth after the transfer of all of the embryos resulting from their cycles, 100 % of clinical fees will be refunded back to the patients to use in pursuing other family - building measures such as donor egg or adoption.

As leaders in IVF, we utilize every tool to increase the chances of success, from genetic testing of embryos to advanced embryology approaches such as assisted hatching and intracytoplasmic sperm injectioAs leaders in IVF, we utilize every tool to increase the chances of success, from genetic testing of embryos to advanced embryology approaches such as assisted hatching and intracytoplasmic sperm injectioas assisted hatching and intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Our extensive array of services, from intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) to cutting edge technology such as cryopreservation of a woman's eggs (egg freezing) and genetic testing of embryos, is designed to meet the unique needs of every patient who walks through our door.

Human multiple births can occur either naturally (the woman ovulates multiple eggs or the fertilized egg splits into two) or as the result of infertility treatments such as IVF (several embryos are often transferred to compensate for lower quality) or fertility drugs (which can cause multiple eggs to mature in one ovulatory cycle).

To get pregnant using fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization requires good embryos.

In the new study, the scientists expressed surprise that the early abnormal growth of brain cells they observed in the fish embryo specifically affected male hormones, potentially indicating why more boys than girls are diagnosed with certain neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Preimplantation genetic screening, or PGS, is the testing of embryos for general chromosome abnormalities such as Down syndrome prior to transfer to the uterus.

If you're pregnant as a result of a fertility treatment such as Clomid, gonadotropins, or in vitro fertilization (IVF), you'll probably have an ultrasound within the first eight weeks to count the number of embryos that have implanted.

Our fertility treatment options range from Intrauterine Insemination - IUI, ICSI and In Vitro Fertilization - IVF to cutting edge technology such as cryopreservation (egg freezing), genetic testing of embryos (PGD and sex selection) and third party reproduction with an in - house egg donation program at the PFC Egg Donor Agency.

During the first year, if you should need services such as assisted hatching, embryo freezing and storage, or extended cultures, it is all included — you will not be billed extra for those services.

If couples do not achieve a live birth after the transfer of all the embryos resulting from these cycles, 100 % of that amount will be refunded back to the couple to pursue other family building measures such as adoption.

It provides an extensive array of fertility treatment options ranging from intrauterine insemination (IUI), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) to cutting - edge technology such as vitrification and genetic testing of embryos.

Not yet, and although the embryo is still rather small around the size of a sesame seed, you may begin to experience pregnancy symptoms such as frequent urination, food cravings, morning sickness, breast tenderness, etc..

Interactions between these two genomes, which affect everything from health and physiology to fitness, have important consequences for human health and medical interventions such as mitochondrial replacement therapy in embryos.

The genome - editing technique earned top honors, in part because of achievements such as «the creation of a long - sought «gene drive» that could eliminate pests or the diseases they carry, and the first deliberate editing of the DNA of human embryos.»

The scientists replicated ancestral molecular development to transform chicken embryos in a laboratory into specimens with a snout and palate configuration similar to that of small dinosaurs such as Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx.

Hughes ran into conflict with the university and his former sponsor, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), over his efforts to diagnose genetic diseases — such as Tay - Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis — in test - tube embryos scheduled for implantation (Science, 24 January, p. 472).

The development of an elaborate crystalline skeleton within the transparent embryo of the sea urchin provides a model for the shaping of hard mineralized tissues such as shell and bone

Although researchers do not yet know the biological significance of these discoveries, they say that fully cataloguing the genome may help them understand how genetic variations affect the risk of contracting diseases such as cancer as well as how humans grow from a single - celled embryo into an adult.

The scientists heated chicken embryos to 40 ° to 41 ° Celsius for an hour and compared them with embryos incubated at a standard laboratory temperature of 37 ° C. Those chicks exposed to a high «fever» developed craniofacial defects, such as a shorter upper beak, and cardiovascular defects.

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.

The paper reports new details about the procedure, such as the method used to transfer the mitochondria: freezing and heating the embryo before using an electrical pulse to fuse the mother's nucleus into the donor egg.

Since then, the technique has been adopted worldwide, egg and embryo freezing has become routine, and techniques to help infertile men, such as intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection, have become commonplace.

Many planetary embryos were Mars - sized bodies, such as the one that collided with Earth to give rise to the Moon.

In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos.

Though I lack faith, I still acknowledge that there's no such thing as a generic embryo.

Some scientists, such as Kevin Eggan at Harvard, were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

«Ultimately, our next step will be looking at how interaction between the mother and the embryos can be affected, so if the mother is stressed during pregnancy — such as being exposed to a toxin or being deprived of resources such as food and water — we want to see how that can affect development of the embryos,» says Jennings.

The researchers note that these findings need to be viewed with caution because they are based on anonymized aggregate outcomes, which do not allow adjustments for confounding patient characteristics, such as donor and recipient ages, infertility diagnosis, and embryo stage.

«The findings provide new insight into how cells faithfully transmit this organizational information as embryos develop, and into what goes wrong when cellular development goes awry, thereby giving rise to abnormal cell development and diseases such as cancer,» says senior study investigator Danny Reinberg, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at NYU Langone and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Known as germline modification, edits to embryos, eggs or sperm are of particular concern because a person created using such cells would have had their genetic make - up changed without consent, and would permanently pass down that change to future generations.