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While fertility specialists have long known about these factors and their role in predicting IVF success, Yao and her team have set out to determine which ones matter most - and how each factor affects the others in individual cases. For instance, doctors know that older women in general have a more difficult time conceiving. But Yao believes it should be possible to better predict whether a woman in her 40s will get pregnant through IVF based on the overall quality of the embryos she and her partner produce. Doctors already use their own algorithms for determining a couple's chances...
...think the real JonBenet was such a riveting figure? The image of the beautiful, young, innocent child who had been made up to look much older by her mother--a sexualized infant--was a very perverse and alarming image to many people...
...Hagerman who first noticed in the late 1990s that mothers of kids with FXS often reported that their father was experiencing neurological symptoms. "I thought, This can't be a coincidence," she recalls. At an FXS conference in 2000, Hagerman asked some 100 fragile X family members if an older male relative was having problems with balance, tremors or dementia. About a third of the audience members shot their hands into the air. Within a few years, a newly recognized genetic disorder called FXTAS (fragile X--associated tremor, ataxia syndrome) was part of the literature, though the illness is still...
Unlike these older, more popular therapies, Vet-Stem offers - for the time being - better medicine to animals than any allowed for their owners: even though it does not use controversial embryonic stem cells, the fatty-tissue stem-cell transplant has not yet secured FDA approval for use in humans. But pets are reaping the benefits in droves. Since Vet-Stem began offering its online certification course in January, more than 1,000 vets have signed up to take it, many at the urging of their patients' owners. The FDA has so far approved the treatment for animals' orthopedic problems...
Nearby in Qadisiya district, tables of older men crowd the sidewalk of a cafe, smoking water pipes and socializing. In Harithiya, the coils of barbed wire on a patch of grass have been tossed aside, and a group of school-age boys now play soccer in its midst; on the same street, a cluster of teenage girls stand, giggling together under a street lamp - which, miraculously, is working. By day, the affluent Karada district bustles with life. Old storefronts - their glass once blown out by explosions and now replaced - display grandiose chandeliers for sale, dripping in crystal...