First Baby Born from Eggs Matured and Frozen in the Lab
...ertilization (IVF), where they are typically given female hormone supplements to boost the number of mature eggs they produce, allowing more embryos to be created. "Ovarian stimulation is also time-consuming, taking between two and six weeks. Women who suffer sudden ovarian failure would not have time to ...Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in Pain Due to Cancer
Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's greatest female Pharaoh died in pain probably due to caner that sp...narrow the search for the Pharaoh to the couple of female mummies in the KV60 tomb. Preliminary examination of the 3,000-year-old mummy has now revealed tha...Rosehips may Be an Effective Alternative for Rheumatoid Arthritis
...ease than osteo-arthritis. A total of 89, mostly female patients with an average age of 57 were recruited, all seriously affected by RA which they had suffered for more than 18 years. Of these, 74 stayed in the trial for the full six months. Thirty-three were randomly assigned to a group taking LitoZin ...Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice
...ence, they investigated the emotional state of 129 female infertility patients one month before IVF treatment. The volunteers were asked about their mood states, their social, sexual and relationship stress and about whether they preferred to have a singleton, twin or triplet pregnancy, and which of these...Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic
...on the state MENA news agency on Tuesday outlawing female circumcision as un-Islamic as the authorities pre...nounced plans on Thursday to impose a total ban on female circumcision, the widely-practised removal of the clitoris, but the draft law still faces a tough de...Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate
...ing keyhole surgeries on eleven stray dogs - seven female and four male. The dogs are first given vitamins vaccinations and devorming medicines a day before the operation. By applying local anaesthesia, the surgery is performed. This has no side effect on the dogs which are released as soon as it recover...Men, Not Women, Spend a Longer Time on the Phone!
... that men spend more time on the phone than their female counterparts. The study has found that men not only spend more time on house phones, but also on the their mobiles. It has been estimated that men are hooked to their phones for 32 minutes today, as compared to 22 minutes in 2002. However, women...Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children
... they spent more time playing the games than their female counterparts. Boys spent an average of 58 minutes per day during the week and one hour 37 minutes on weekends playing videogames, compared with girls who played for 44 minutes per day during the week and one hour and one minute on the weekends. T...Common Environmental Chemicals Hamper Ovary Development in Foetus
Researchers have found that exposing a developing female sheep foetus to low doses of commonly present environmental chemicals can disturb the development of the ovary. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr. Paul Fowler at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. As part of the s...Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer
...arrons wife Chantal, 46, and son Bryan 11. The female guest opened the freezer while helping to clear up after a dinner with a group of friends Tuesday at the man's home in the city of Verviers, 78 miles east of Brussels, and discovered the bodies. The guest fled the house and called the police. The ...Womens Mood Plays a Key Role in Infertility Treatment
...ble in assisted reproduction. The team asked 129 female infertility patients to undertake a standardised questionnaire, the Profile of Mood States (POMS), one month before hospital UVF treatment. POMS measures such transient moods as anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue, and provides a total score of ...A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life
An Ontario man who killed his 25-year-old female neighbor was sentenced to life in prison. The savage fatal beating of Alicia Ross by her neighbor Daniel Sylvester was described as an act of extreme cruelty and callousness, by an Ontario Superior Court judge who imposed a life sentence with no cha...Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males
...ermined in mouse studies. Their discovery that female mice produce far less of the protein called interl...f male mice, but only in 10 to 20 percent of their female littermates. The researchers discovered that normal female mice given DEN produced far less IL-6 t...Africa's Men Urged to Step Up AIDS Fight
South Africa's top female politician warned Saturday that men must get fully involved in the war against HIV/AIDS if the disease is to be defeated. "There aren't enough men who are taking enough responsibility to go for tests and live responsibly, and that kind of (behavio...British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness
...'s childhood was punctuated by the deaths of other female relatives and she has a horror of her two children...same time to confirm the problem gene. Most of her female relatives who contracted the cancer are dead, although she is considering asking her newly diagnosed...Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost
...rone for post-menopausal women. The two major female hormones estrogen and progesterone control the female reproductive system and have an effect on many systems and tissues throughout the body. They play a ...Chromosone Disorders - Unrevealed Facts
... there is an alternative distribution mechanism in female sex cells that cause chromosome disorders. Aberran... explain why chromosome disorders are so common in female sex cells, says Professor Christer Hg, leader of the study. The research might eventually lead to n...Size and Position of Floral Anther Plays a Vital Role in Pollination
...ferences in the size and placement of the male and female reproductive parts of a flower can determine how those flowers are pollinated--by insects, birds, animals, wind, or the flowers themselves. Genetic programs determine how the embryos will grow, when the fruit opens to disperse the seed, how the fru...Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea
... after the customer is dropped off. There are also female replacement drivers for female customers. Hur began working full time as a replacement driver after he went bankrupt and lost his...The onset of puberty and maintenance of the female reproductive cycle are events controlled by neuron... regulator of the neuronal signaling that controls female reproductive function. The authors found that EPA1 expression was selectively increased at puberty ...