pelvic

Researchers devise new technique for creating human stem cells

...esearchers also performed fusion experiments using pelvic bone cells as the somatic cells and a different human embryonic cell line, to demonstrate that their technique was not restricted to one adult cell type or embryonic cell line. In both cases, the researchers observed extensive reprogramming of the ...

Cells from amniotic fluid used to tissue-engineer a new trachea

...s, such as grafting in pieces of the baby's rib or pelvic bone, using synthetic substances like Teflon, or implanting stents (in the hope that tissue would scar around the stents and form a tube), but with limited success. "These are all makeshift solutions, and they're fraught with complications infectio...

From one cell, many possible cures

...amount of bone marrow is extracted from his or her pelvic bone." Within that extracted bone marrow, only about one in every 100,000 cells is a stem cell, Ma said. "Because they are so rare, the ability to reproduce stem cells in a laboratory becomes particularly significant for further research and clinica...

Chlamydia parasite lives off our fat

...cal pneumonias to chronic severe disorders such as pelvic inflammatory disease and atherosclerosis. The Centers for Disease Control says that Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually-transmitted infection in the US, with three million new cases a year. Chlamydia gets around because it knows its...

Scientists fetch useful information from dog genome publications

..., "one of the QTL that we identified controls both pelvic size and metacarpal length, but the two traits are...mals specialized for running tend to exhibit large pelvic bones and relatively slender limbs." In the second manuscript, Lark's team describes the genetic ba...

Dog genome sequenced

..., "one of the QTL that we identified controls both pelvic size and metacarpal length, but the two traits are...mals specialized for running tend to exhibit large pelvic bones and relatively slender limbs." In the second manuscript, Lark's team describes the genetic ba...

Anti-HIV drug has potential to prevent transmission in women

... days and received frequent safety assessments and pelvic exams during the study at one of four research sites: The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; Harlem Hospital and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, both in New York. The most common adverse eff...

One therapeutic dose of radiation causes 30 percent spongy bone loss in mice

...tion found that post-menopausal women who received pelvic radiation for cervical and colorectal cancer increased their bone fracture risk by 60%. Radiation following anal cancer increased the risk of fracture by 200%, he said. Astronauts lose 2% of bone mass for each month they are exposed to the effects ...

Study challenges myth that sex late in pregnancy hastens birth

... that women who experience abdominal discomfort or pelvic pressure ?possible signs of earlier delivery ?won't be inclined to want to have sex. Schaffir also said that because of the highly personal nature of sexual behavior, the study does not address specific components of sexual behavior that might have v...

Chlamydia vaccine a step closer to reality

...ults in infertility in women and long-term chronic pelvic pain," he said. "There are antibiotics to treat Chlamydia, but there's no vaccine to prevent it. In many cases women don't know they are infected because there are not really any physical signs or symptoms, so by and large they don't get treatment...

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

...eeding, enlarged uterine size, frequent urination, pelvic pressure or pain and infertility. According to the National Women’s Health Information Center, fibroids are the primary reason for surgical removal of the uterus, accounting for approximately one-third of hysterectomies performed annually in the ...

Definitive evidence found of a swimming dinosaur

...ith alternating movements of the two hind limbs, a pelvic paddle swimming motion," said Costeur. "It is a swimming style of amplified walking with movements similar to those used by modern bipeds, including aquatic birds." The question of whether dinosaurs could swim has been researched for years. Until ...