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Study investigates whether fresh or frozen embryo transfer is best for women undergoing IVF

The world's first baby born via in-vitro fertilization turned 40 years old this summer. Still, after four decades, IVF is a relatively new field with ongoing debate on how to get the best results for families who have placed their hopes -- and often their personal savings -- into fertility treatment.

21 Aug 2018

Innovative oncofertility program launched by RMA of New York and Mount Sinai Health System

Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, a Manhattan-based fertility center, and the Mount Sinai Health System have launched an innovative, integrated oncofertility program at The Blavatnik Family – Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai to provide individuals and couples the benefit of advanced medical technologies to help with someday building their families.

15 Aug 2018

Scientists uncover reason for similarity between cells in malignant cancers and embryonic cells

Using just a microscope, Italian surgeon Francesco Durante was struck by the similarities between cells in the most malignant cancers and the embryonic cells of the organ in which the cancer originated.

9 Aug 2018

Researchers develop new method for capturing dynamic processes in individual cells

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Harvard Medical School report in the journal Nature that they have developed a technique for capturing dynamic processes in individual cells. Apart from studying disease processes, the method can be used to observe in detail how specialised cells are formed during embryonic development.

9 Aug 2018

Genetic testing before embryo transfer makes no difference to live birth rates

The genetic screening of fertilized eggs for embryo selection in assisted reproduction makes no difference to live birth rates, according to results from the largest published study of its kind.

6 Aug 2018

Researchers develop 3D model of human placenta

The placenta is the organ connecting mother and embryo. Its main functions are the exchange of nutrients, gases and metabolic products and the production of hormones and other substances essential for embryonic development.

3 Aug 2018

New research into how cells communicate could pave way for improved cancer treatments

Pioneering new research into the way in which cells communicate with each other could hold the key to unlocking new, improved treatment for life-threatening diseases, including cancer.

31 Jul 2018

Study shows how organs acquire very complex yet stable shapes

Researchers from the Department of Cellular Biology at the University of Seville and Seville Institute of Biomedicine have shown that epithelial cells, which are those that cover the surfaces of many organs, adopt a new, previously undescribed geometric shape, the scutoid, so that tissue can curve.

27 Jul 2018

Researchers discover new cell shape that allows tissues to curve

Researchers have discovered a new cell shape called a Scutoid that allows epithelial cells to curve into tissues and form complex organ shapes.

27 Jul 2018

Researchers investigate how afferent nerves that sprout from the ectopic ear reach the brain

In vertebrates, the inner ear develops from the otic placode, a group of cells found in a specific region on the surface of the growing embryo.

27 Jul 2018

Most Americans skeptical about gene editing

A new survey from Pew Research Center has found that nearly half of the surveyed Americans believe that in the coming 50 years, nearly all genetic birth defects could be eliminated due to advances in gene editing.

26 Jul 2018

Small RNA in sperm shown to be essential for embryonic development

New research has shown that small RNA in sperm is essential for embryo implantation and embryonic development. The findings will be used to optimize IVF.

26 Jul 2018

New study may advance clinical management of infertile couples

A research team have identified the mechanism by which the fertilized egg balances out chromosomes inherited from the mother and the father.

25 Jul 2018

Research deepens understanding of mechanism behind organ morphogenesis

Many organs arise from simple sheets and tubes of cells. During development, these sheets bend and deform into the more complex final shape of the organ.

13 Jul 2018

Fluorescent zebrafish genes provide clues about neuroblastoma

Researchers have created transgenic zebrafish that could help them understand how neuroblastoma, a common pediatric cancer, develops.

10 Jul 2018

Fluorescent fish could help find origins of neuroblastoma

A new type of zebrafish that produces fluorescent tags in migratory embryonic nerve precursor cells could help a Rice University neurobiologist and cancer researcher find the origins of the third-most common pediatric cancer in the U.S.

10 Jul 2018

Researchers find new way to convert skin cells into pluripotent stem cells

Our bodies consist of many different kinds of cells, each with their own role. The Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka had made earlier the discovery, earning the Nobel Prize in 2012, that cells from adult skin can be converted to cells typical of early embryos, so-called induced pluripotent stem cells.

6 Jul 2018

Scientists develop novel method of producing pluripotent stem cells

Scientists have developed a modified CRISPR tool that can stimulate the de-differentiation of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells,

6 Jul 2018

8 million babies born through IVF says study

Louise Brown was the first “test-tube” baby who was born in 1978. It has been forty years since then and an international committee looked at the progress of assisted reproduction through these years. The report states that more than 8 million babies were born using IVF technology during this time.

4 Jul 2018

Preventive treatment for recurrent pregnancy loss proved ineffective in large study

An immune response to pregnancy (in which the uterus rejects the embryo or fetus) is said to explain a large number of otherwise "unexplained" miscarriages.

3 Jul 2018

Embryo News and Research

Study investigates whether fresh or frozen embryo transfer is best for women undergoing IVF

Innovative oncofertility program launched by RMA of New York and Mount Sinai Health System

Scientists uncover reason for similarity between cells in malignant cancers and embryonic cells

Researchers develop new method for capturing dynamic processes in individual cells

Genetic testing before embryo transfer makes no difference to live birth rates

Researchers develop 3D model of human placenta

New research into how cells communicate could pave way for improved cancer treatments

Study shows how organs acquire very complex yet stable shapes

Researchers discover new cell shape that allows tissues to curve

Researchers investigate how afferent nerves that sprout from the ectopic ear reach the brain

Most Americans skeptical about gene editing

Small RNA in sperm shown to be essential for embryonic development

New study may advance clinical management of infertile couples

Research deepens understanding of mechanism behind organ morphogenesis

Fluorescent zebrafish genes provide clues about neuroblastoma

Fluorescent fish could help find origins of neuroblastoma

Researchers find new way to convert skin cells into pluripotent stem cells

Scientists develop novel method of producing pluripotent stem cells

8 million babies born through IVF says study

Preventive treatment for recurrent pregnancy loss proved ineffective in large study

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