Deciphering embryonic development is essential to understanding and curing diseases. diseases that will afflict us for the rest of our lives, and science has just taken a giant step towards this understanding thanks to the creation of organoids of mother cells obtained from the amniotic fluid of 12 fetuses. Organoids are simplified and realistic versions […]
Tag: pregnancy
French government wants to take the fight over abortion to the European Union
Two days after the French Legislature voted in favor of introducing the voluntary interruption of the pregnancy in the Constitution, the spokesperson for the Executive, Prisca Thevenot, assured this Wednesday that they want to raise “the fight against abortion at the European level.” In a press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, […]
Lab-grown miniplacentas help better understand preeclampsia
A team scientist has developed “miniplacentas” in the laboratory and has used them to clarify how the placenta develops and interacts with the inner lining of the uterus, which could help better understand preeclampsia and, in the future, treat it. The study, published this Wednesday in Cell Stem Cell, demonstrates that it is possible to […]
Hormone secreted by the fetus causes nausea during pregnancy, study says
A hormone secreted by the fetus is linked to the nausea and vomiting that many women suffer during pregnancyaccording to a study that opens a way to treat these discomforts. Nausea and vomiting affect one in ten pregnancies and one in every 100 women has severe symptoms. This discomfort called “hyperemesis gravidarum”HG) is the most […]
Traveling between states to have an abortion: the new reality in the US
Women forced to undertake painful and expensive journeys to obtain abortions, a number of interruptions of pregnancy that has exploded in several states: this is the panorama that emerges in USA since the elimination of the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. Just over a year after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. […]
Abortion in Venezuela, between criminalization and taboo
María drank a concoction with avocado seeds, leaves of “bad mother” and other plants to try to interrupt their pregnancy, but it didn’t work and it ran out of options. abort in Venezuela it is illegal and is only accessible clandestinely if you have money. 26 years old and mother of five girls, María lives […]
Why does a human pregnancy last 9 months, in mice 20 days and in rhinos 17 months?
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Barcelona (northeast of Spain) created a library of mother cells record of six species of mammals -human, mouse, monkey, rabbit, cow and rhinoceros- to compare them and study why they differ in the time they take to develop. The work, published today in the Cell Stem […]
The abortion pill, widely used but threatened in the US
the pill abortive has become a new battleground in USA among those who defend and reject the right to terminate a pregnancy, after the Supreme Court authorized each state to legislate in this regard. Approved for more than 20 years, this widely used method is now under threat. In what proportion is it used? According […]
Frozen sperm achieves the same in vitro results as fresh semen
Using frozen sperm in in vitro fertilization achieves the same results as fresh semen, according to a study carried out on 7,969 couples by researchers from the Eugin Group. The research, published by the journal ‘Human Reproduction’is the largest sample analyzed in a scientific study of this type to date and has taken into account […]