NPR

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Several women who have had trouble conceiving children have gone to a clinic in Ukraine that is doing something unique: using DNA from three different people to create a healthy embryo.

Your Pregnancy

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Having a baby is usually a couple’s decision. If it’s a planned pregnancy, you need to discuss things such as affordability, timing and spacing of future siblings, child-care and work options. If this is your first baby, you should also discuss your

Australian Geographic

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GENDER CAN be very fluid. Strangely, a bird can have two genders, and a human can sometimes be two people. Imagine being the mother of three adult children who discovers she’s not related to two of them, even though she became pregnant using her own

Healthy Food Guide

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What to eat when you’re trying to conceive and while you’re pregnant can be confusing, especially when you factor in hormonal fluctuations, cravings and morning sickness. If you or someone you know is thinking about getting pregnant, the simplest thi

Popular Science

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Could a plant-powered contraceptive keep sperm in check? TBIT via Pixabay Imagine: You're a sperm cell just trying to complete your life's greatest seminal work—fertilizing an egg cell. You're swimming up a reproductive track, your lil tail steadily

The American Poetry Review

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I was like you once, a sealed plastic bag of water filters floating on the sea. I thought my numbers proved my time and space on earth. I thought having children was a way of creating more love. I thought thoughts I was ashamed to speak in case they

CosBeauty Magazine

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Becoming pregnant and having a baby is a miracle; a precious gift that you’ll love and treasure above all. For many though, conceiving isn’t as easy as they would like it to be. In fact, one in six Australian couples of childbearing age will be faced

Los Angeles Times

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Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from 2018 to 2022. Near the top of the document, the agency presents its mission statement: HHS activities "cover a wide

Mother & Baby India

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WHAT IS OVULATION? Ovulation is defined as the release of the egg from the mature ovarian follicle - the time of the month when you are most fertile. If you are trying to conceive a baby, then knowing when you ovulate is very important as you can tim

Science Illustrated

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Scientists have for the first time produced an initial-stage embryo without the use of either sperm or eggs. Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies produced stem cells using cells from adult mice, and those cells very soon began to

STAT

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Researchers trying to improve IVF have begun looking at how to make the Petri dish environment more like that of the fallopian tubes.

Your Pregnancy

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Sperm are tiny. A million of them could fit on the head of a pin. On average, they need to swim about 18cm far to fertilise the egg. To put that into perspective: for a sperm to reach the egg requires the same amount of stamina a human would need to

Futurity

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A particular enzyme plays a role when genetic machinery begins at the very first stage of life: as a single cell after fertilization, researchers report. The researchers believe that the new finding may explain why some fertilizations fail. All peopl

Your Pregnancy

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Have you heard an old wives’ tale about how to ensure you have a boy or a girl? For a girl, some say you need to have sex during full moon. What does science say? We’re born with 23 sets of chromosomes, one of these sets being the sex chromosomes. Wo

The Atlantic

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“My kids know they’re a product of me and their dad, but that Debbie was our oven … They love her even more knowing the sacrifice she made.”

The Guardian

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A 73-year-old woman in southern India who has given birth to healthy twin girls described motherhood as “the happiest time of my life”. The babies were delivered through caesarean section on Thursday. Uma Shankar, the woman’s doctor, told the Guardia

Popular Science

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What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast.

Lampoon Magazine International

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in biology – the female reproductive sex cell. In Hinduism – the beginning of all creation: the shell as the heavens, the yolk as the Earth. An unhatched egg resting in a nest is a message of anticipation, unexpected potential and hope. Once broken o

Good Housekeeping South Africa

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CYAN TURAN spoke to doctors, therapists and dietitians to sort the facts from the fiction. If you’re trying, or want to start, here’s what the experts say... ‘As a society, we don’t take stress seriously, but it has huge physical effects on our bodi

Futurity

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New research clarifies how female reproductive cells—eggs or oocytes—get the food they need to grow and remain fertile. The egg gets its food from little arm-like feeding tubes (called filopodia) that jut out from tiny cells surrounding the egg and m

The Atlantic

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When Parker Pennington first saw the embryo, she gasped—but very quietly. At the time, as is often the case for her these days, she had her arm fully inside the rectum of a white rhino, and she didn’t want to alarm the animal by yelping excitedly. In

Futurity

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Plant biologists have discovered a way to make crop plants replicate through seeds as clones. The discovery, which plant breeders and geneticists have long sought, could make it easier to propagate high-yielding, disease-resistant, or climate-toleran

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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On a cold New York day after the usual nine months of nesting and anticipation, Donna Fasano gave birth to two darling boys. She and her husband, Richard, were both in their late 30s and had enlisted an IVF clinic to help them conceive, so when the t

Futurity

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Scientists have made a discovery in piglets that could decrease the costs associated with in vitro fertilization in people. Parents seeking to have children through IVF spend between $12,000 and $15,000 each session plus the cost of medications, whic

The Australian Women's Weekly

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On a cold New York day after the usual nine months of nesting and anticipation, Donna Fasano gave birth to two darling boys. She and her husband, Richard, were both in their late 30s and had enlisted an IVF clinic to help them conceive, so when the t

STAT

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When I looked for the deeper meaning of existence, I found that I was too skeptical for heaven and hell, for deities and spirits. I found it in a research…

Popular Science

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It's called heteropaternal superfecundation. Note: Below is the script for the video, above. You may want to just watch the video instead. While we have you, why don't you subscribe to Popular Science on YouTube? Female cats, also called “queens,” us

NPR

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New data have confirmed major differences in mutation rates between the sexes — showing that children inherit more mutations from their dads than from their moms, says guest commentator Robert Martin.

Popular Science

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These "space pups" were conceived using sperm that had been freeze-dried on the International Space Station for nine months. Wakayama et al./PNAS If humankind ever sets up a colony on Mars, a lot of things will be different. There’ll be less gravity,

Woman's Weekly

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American researchers have discovered a technique that changes our DNA by editing out a gene to stop pain signals being sent. Trials are starting and the treatment may be available within five years. It could offer relief for millions who suffer from