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...idea whether [reproductive cloning] would work in humans—it would be grossly irresponsible to try, and we’re completely opposed to it.” Rather, institute researchers want to extract stem cell lines from the early stages of embryonic growth—not implant the embryo back into a woman to birth a child. We hope that the University’s ethic board will see the distinction between potentially lifesaving stem cell research on diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes or Alzheimers and the type of reproductive cloning that produced Dolly...
...often transfer several embryos into the womb during in vitro fertilization (IVF) in hopes of boosting the chance that one of them will "take" and therefore boost their clinic's success rate. Studies suggest, however, that the odds of a successful pregnancy may be the same whether you implant one, two or three embryos. Many European countries have decided to restrict their IVF clinics to one or two embryos per pregnancy. Dr. Lockwood and other physicians think such a limit might make sense in the U.S. as well...
...USUALLY HAVE few good options for replacing your teeth. Either you use removable dentures or you undergo an expensive, long and painful procedure to install permanent dental implants. A new method takes a lot of the sting out of the implant process, although it still puts a hurt on your wallet...
...dentist begins the implantation by screwing the surgical guide over the patient's gums. Then, going through holes in the guide, the dentist drills holes in the jawbone to receive the implants. When the surgical guide is removed, abutments are placed on the tops of the implants, and the final prosthesis is fixed to the abutments. The downside: this and other new implant systems still cost about the same as traditional implants. --By Arnold Mann
...vitro fertilization (IVF), the high cost of repeated attempts and the chance of having multiple babies are often cause for hesitation. But new research at the Sher Institutes of Reproductive Medicine suggests that there could soon be a test to identify which embryos are most likely to be successfully implanted. Such a test would reduce the number of tries needed to achieve pregnancy and allow doctors to implant fewer embryos, lowering the odds of having quadruplets or triplets. Sher doctors found that embryos that produce a high level of the genetic marker sHLA-G gave women a better than...