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To Die For: Rolls-Royce and 'green' Coffins at British Funerals

...n 2004 cost the same. Vic Fearn have made a wooden egg for a woman who wanted to be buried in the foetal position, a ballet pump for a ballerina, a kite, a barge for the bodies of a couple, a skate-board and even two dumpsters. "We never refuse anything," said Gill, whose company makes around 15,000 coff...

Nagaland Gets Its First Test-Tube Baby

... baby was born after 36 weeks after the fertilised egg was placed inside the mother's womb. Thanking doctors and god for making it possible, Akheli says now I have finally got a baby boy. More excited than the parents were the doctors. Sukhato, the doctor at Faith Hospital said: "During my last 27 ...

Scientists Observed Live Cell Migration

...cells that literally crawl across the length of an egg chamber while it is maturing," says Denise Montell...ns as the "leader" during their journey across the egg chamber. Another discovery is that a protein called Kuzbanian is necessary to help border cells deta...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

...rity said it would immediately suspend poultry and egg imports from Selangor as a precaution, while imports from other parts of Malaysia will continue. Malaysia suffered outbreaks of avian influenza among poultry in early 2006, but there were no human cases and the nation declared itself free of the di...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

...become part male and part female, producing female egg proteins. The after-effects on humans are however still unknown. Even at low levels, NPEs are known to cause male fish to produce eggs, disrupt normal male-to-female sex ratios and seriously endanger fish reproduction. The after-effects on humans a...

Fertility Test at Home Possible With a New Kit

...men that measures a hormone considered a marker of egg quality. The availability of the two-in-one test... an indicator that the ovarian reserve, indicating egg quality, is low. The result is available in 30 minutes. The tests are not definitive and do not su...

Sheep Offer Model for Undernourishment in Pregnant Teen Girls

...ed in each experimental ewe by implanting a single egg fertilized with the sperm of just one male sheep. The control group of animals received an optimal diet for maintaining their pregnancies. Ewes in the experimental group were provided a diet that sustained their bodyweight at the time they became p...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

...ive methods available, we found no evidence of any egg stem cells in human ovaries, demonstrating that Dr...women should not expect stem cell therapy to treat egg infertility or menopause in the foreseeable future. This is a very important finding by a distingu...

China Eyeing US Cooked Chickens Market

... all countries looking to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the U.S. need to earn "equivalency" points - which is like saying products imported to the U.S. are as good as the domestic competition. When no U.S. government representative in China would be watching poultry being slaughtered and p...

Residues Go Merrily Down the Stream in Portland

...lamette River around Portland showed remains of an egg yolk protein that is commonly found in adult female fish. "So they're being exposed to something, we just don't know what it is," said Lyndal Johnson, head of reproductive toxicology at the federal Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. It...

UK Scientists to Undertake Seven Year Study of Peanut Allergy

...ween four and 11 months and already have eczema or egg allergy, putting them at high risk of being allergic to peanuts. Current guidelines advise women to avoid nuts during pregnancy if there is a family history of allergy. This group is also advised not to give their babies peanuts before they are thr...

DelSite Working Toward Solving Delivery of Influenza Vaccine in Pandemic Situations

...faster, and eliminates allergic problems caused by egg proteins. DelSite's GelVac(TM) powder vaccine technology works with egg- or cell-based antigen. In addition, the use of a whole virus (whole virion) provides more potent vaccines than vaccines produced using split or partial parts of the virus; the...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

...sease in which malignant cells form in the germ or egg of the ovary, constitute just five percent of all ovarian cancers diagnosed. He explains that there has been a tremendous amount of interest in fertility because it relates to germ cell tumour survivors. Ovarian germ cell tumours often occur in gi...

Girls With Cancer Given Fertility Hope

...ve to 20, in addition to ovarian tissue containing egg producing follicles. The eggs were then cultured t...ven hormonal drugs to stimulate the ovaries before egg collection. Dr Ariel Revel, who led the team, said: "No eggs have yet been thawed, so we do not k...

IVF Tourism Marred by Ethical Differences in EU

...d for fertility treatment because of a shortage of egg donors in the UK. Patients blame the change in the law that gives children born through egg or sperm donation the right to trace their biological parents. Many of them are traveling to Spain, ...

Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research

...tudy looked at molecules present on the surface of egg and sperm to prevent fertilisation." He migrated to Sydney in 1995. "I joined Macquarie University as chief scientist in reproduction physiology of marsupials. We developed a system of in-vitro fertilisation for brush-tailed possums for the first ...

Japanese Firm Unveils Artificial Hand With 'air Muscles'

...e prototype hand grasped a pen and picked up a raw egg without breaking it. The firm plans to ship some 50 prototypes to research institutes and firms, with plans to market them overseas in the near future, Shimizu said. Air muscles may be key technology for developing new types of artificial hands i...

Brain Tumor Drug in Frogs A New Report

A synthetic version of a molecule found in the egg cells of the Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) could provide the world with the first drug treatment for brain tumours. The molecule Amphinase,recognises the sugary coating found on a tumour cell and binds to its surface before invading the cel...

Advancement in DNA Research may Bring Back Woolly Mammoth

... by inserting this modified DNA into an elephant's egg cell, and implanting it in an elephant's womb, you could create a modified elephant that's nearly identical to the original mammoth. Or it could become possible to make entire chromosomes from scratch. I wouldn't be surprised if, in ten years, you'd ...

Preimplanted Genetic Screening Should Be Interpreted With Caution

...erent assisted reproduction technique, for example egg donation....

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