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...protein that is helpful to embryo survival may actually be harmful to babies born to diabetic women, according to a recent study released by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliate. Past research has found that diabetic women are two to five times more likely than women with normal blood sugar levels to have babies with birth defects. In the recent study, which was conducted on mice, HMS associate professor Mary R. Loeken and her colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center identified the expression of the glucose transporter Glut2 early in embryonic development as a factor in this disparity. However, because...
Scientists have announced a new source of stem cells that can be harvested without destroying the embryo--just as Congress prepares to vote on the controversial issue in the coming weeks...
...signed South Dakota’s extremist anti-abortion law.” HB1215, signed into law on March 6 by S.D. Governor Mike Rounds, prohibits all abortions in the state. The law also criminalizes the sale of any drug that could lead to the termination of a human embryo...
Would-be mothers who fear time is running out can take comfort from a Finnish study that showed that it's the quality of the embryo--not the age of the woman--that determines the success of in vitro fertilization. The study found that the pregnancy rate for women in their late 30s who had a single, top-quality embryo transfer was as good as that of younger women. What makes a grade-A embryo? Belgian researchers found that the transplant of a single fresh (not frozen) Day 5 embryo in infertile women under age 36 led to pregnancy...
While this argument cannot, of course, be extrapolated to the debate over how to treat post-implantation embryos, the conclusion is nonetheless extremely relevant socially. For example, it shows that rape victims’ decisions to prevent embryo implantation are perfectly acceptable ethically, and can in no way be compared to the “death penalty...