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Environmental Toxin Causes Heritable Adult-Onset Diseases

...ntal toxin during the period that the sex of their offspring was being determined. At that stage of development...ats that were exposed to vinclozolin produced male offspring with low sperm counts and a high incidence of adult-onset diseases. Despite their low fertility, tho...

Mother’s Drinking May Increase Child's Alcoholism Ris

...uence maternal drinking may also be present in the offspring and contribute -- in addition to, or via, an interaction with the increased exposure to alcohol to the offspring's drinking behavior at age 21,". However he said, "Whatever the mechanism eventually turns out to be, these findings make a strong case...

Researchers Uncover Gene That Raises Risk for Type 1 Diabetes

...DQ genes as genetic markers that when passed on to offspring of a diabetic parent determined a risk for type 1 diabetes in a child. Investigators have been searching for other genes determining diabetes risk, looking primarily at genetic regions outside of the HLA region. The current research from the Barbara ...

Risk Of Death Increased In Children Of Mothers Subjected To Domestic Violence

...rinatal and neonatal periods more than doubled for offspring of mothers who experience domestic violence. However, the researchers did not find any significant associations between domestic violence and mortality in later stages of early childhood. According to the researchers, domestic violence may elevate mo...

Men Find Fleshy Women More Attractive When Hungry

... survival preference as the best chance of healthy offspring in an environment where food is scarce is a heavier woman. Dr. Tovee explained that cognitive state, drives, and interests are dependent on the underlying physiology, blood sugar levels and hormone levels, and these depend upon hunger, and this exp...

Gene Responsible For Mammary Gland Function, When Mutated Results in Leukemias

...dulthood were not able to successfully nurse their offspring because they lacked MKL1 and were not able to expel milk from their mammary glands. 'The absence of the MKL1 gene impairs normal development and function of mammary gland muscle genes that depend on SRF,' Morris said. 'These muscles are the ones that...

Scientists Create Live Birth Using Artificial Sperms Produced In Vitro

... had raised hopes for infertile women, although no offspring were born. The scientists hope that in the longer term, it might be possible to create sperm from female stem cells, and eggs from male ones, which could allow homosexual couples to have children bearing the genes of both parents. In theory, the scie...

A three-dimensional Culture System ensures Female Fertility

...sult of the cultured embyros. Both male and female offspring were fertile. Source: Eurekalet...

Top 10 Reasons Why People Are Obese

...ating Fat people mating with fat people begets fat offspring Dr. Robert Kushner, medical director of the weight-management program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said the study was very creative, "We are facing an epidemic with no tipping point in the near future. At this point, there are no s...

Does Weight of the Mother Determine the Sex of the Baby?

...r maternal characteristic that results in a larger offspring is likely to produce more males. "If anything reduces the size of the offspring at birth, it is a disadvantage to the individual to be born male - therefore, there is a greater pro...

Scientists Claim Human Womb Transplants Possible

... to human wombs and they too usually give birth an offspring at a time. The doctor explained that the patient who receives a womb transplant would only have the organ for a maximum of two years, and could have it removed on the birth of the child. Explaining that by having a temporary transplant, doctors cou...

Vasectomy Reversal to Lead to Birth Defects

...er Such abnormalities would be carried over to the offspring or not. While Sukchereon concluded that these results have not yet indicated that babies born to men who have undergone vasectomy reversals will have birth defects he proposed the need for caution to avoid dangers. He said,' this is still uncertain...

Two cloned mules, Compete In A Professional Race For The First Time Ever.

...ood about cloning. A mule is the usually sterile offspring of a donkey father and a horse mother. It was informed that these clones were born three years ago and carry identical DNA taken from a fetus that was produced by the same parents that sired a champion mule racer, Enditem....

Fathering Best Done In Early Years

...pregnant miscarriages and an increased risk of the offspring inheriting genetic diseases such as dwarfism. ‘There is consequence to delaying fatherhood,’ said Andrew Wyrobek, lead researcher of the study and a biophysicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. ‘The probability of infer...

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Sets Cognitive Problems After 10 Years

...lysis. · African-American rather than Caucasian offspring are more prone to this condition. Although defic...second trimester – is associated with lower IQs in offspring at 10 years of age. ‘The impact of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure on IQ ranges from a two- to a ...

Prostate cancer risk pronounced with selenium-protein deficiency

...d lower levels of selenoproteins. Approximately 50 offspring that carried both traits were studied to see if the reduced levels of selenoproteins accelerated cancer development. As the researchers suspected, it did. "It's a hardcore link in an animal model system of selenium-containing proteins to prostate c...

Tumor Resistant Mice Point To Novel Cancer Treatments

...hers bread the mouse, only to find that 50% of its offspring had the same kind of tumor resistance. Cross breeding experiments were also taken up. The researchers upon analysis found that white blood cells of the tumor resistant mice induced a killing process called cytolysis. A combination of WBCs (neutrophil...

Doubts About In UteroTransmission Of Senile Amyloidosis

...nstration of transmission of senile amyloidosis to offspring from affected mice, concerns about spread of the d...e scientific study 'Transmission of amyloidosis in offspring of mice with AApoAII amyloidosis,' by Korenaga et al., can be cited in the March issue of the Americ...

Where Mother's Skin Turns Into Food For Offspring

...ngs are doing, Wilkinson said. The team says the offspring of Boulengerula taitanus are entirely dependent on their parent's skin, which transforms into a kind of baby food that the study team likens to mother's milk in mammals. The female's skin doubles in thickness during this period, the researchers f...

Males Lifespan Shortened By Elevated Levels Of Testosterone

... but that they were very successful at siring more offspring ? even with females who were mated with other male...more offspring, but they were smaller, and smaller offspring had lower postfledging survival. Older, more experienced females preferred to mate with older males ...

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