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When Does an Embryo Implant After IVF?

By: zoulkifl | 2011-06-14 | Pregnancy
Embryo implantation usually marks the beginning of pregnancy. In a natural occurrence, this comes in after a sperm inseminates the egg cells in a woman's uterus. Normally, it happens within nine days from ovulation. read more

Debating Stem Cell Research

By: Jackson Sabin | 2010-09-26 | Law
This is a very 'hot button' issue that keeps arising in the face of politicians everywhere in the country. What if anything should the government involve itself in for the issues of stem cell research? How far should the government press into the fields of medical science research? Should the government read more

Embryonic stem-cell research

By: Brian John | 2011-10-03 | College
Embryonic stem cells abbreviated as ES cells are the pluripotent, which are taken from the inner cells of blastocyst, embryo in the early stage. The blastocyst stage is reached only after four to five days after fertilization in human beings. At this stage, they have 50 to 150 cells. read more

Embryonic Stem Cells Research

By: Sowjanya S | 2010-04-04 | Science
Suddenly, stem cells are everywhere. Once referred to mostly in health journals, these microscopic clusters have made their way into news, research reports, business reports etc. The complexity surrounding these relatively simple cells has increased every second. read more

Embryo Grading and IVF Timetable

By: Dr. Anoop Gupta | 2011-03-26 | Health & Fitness
You can ask the Lab Director (or physician) to give you progress reports on the development of your embryos. Critical points in development are (1) fertilization, (2) 4 to 8 cell stage and (3) morula to blastocyst stage. read more

Stem Cell Research

By: andrew sandon | 2006-10-31 | Research
Stem cell research has been at the forefront of many ethical debates in recent years. The manners in which the cells must be harvested and their usage for advancement in biomedical research along with the use of federal funds to finance the ongoing research has proven to be a debate that is not easily resolved even with the revolutionary advances in the treatment and prevention of disease, injury and birth defects. Although the benefits of continuing work on stem cell research sometimes outweigh its costs the final judgment for this issue should be that stem cell research should not b... read more

Research In The Field Of Stem Cells

By: Akmol | 2010-10-09 | Medicine
Stem cells can help in finding treatments for life-threatening medical conditions as they have unique renewing and regenerating capability. But, ethical groups are claiming that extracting stem cells from human embryos by killing them is inhuman. read more

How to Promote Cell Stem Research

By: Bryan Burbank | 2010-04-02 | Health & Fitness
One would be hard pressed today to read a newspaper or turn on the TV news with out a story on Stem Cell Research. It certainly is the hot topic of the moment. If you are in favor of Stem Cell Research there are ways for you to promote it. A large number of experts in the medical population are in favor of using stem cells in medical therapies. The big controversy comes from embryo are necessary. the fact that in order to get the needed stem cells, first the human embryos must be destroyed. read more

Stem Cell Research Paper

By: Brian John | 2010-11-12 | College
When a student selects the topic of stem cell for his/her research paper, there will be a lot of research involved. A stem cell research paper will mainly focus on a stem cell. This is what a research paper is all about. A student must focus on the topic itself. read more

Life-saving Stem Cells

By: Akmol | 2010-10-09 | Medicine
Life-saving menstrual blood stem cells can be harvested during the menstrual cycle. New research have already proved that menstrual blood, which has typically been get rid of as unsanitary waste, can be used to receive self-renewing stem cells that can be easily accumulated, processed and cryo-preserved to be used in several potential cellular therapies. read more

Donating Menstrual Blood For Stem Cell Research

By: Akmol | 2010-11-01 | Diabetes
Menstrual blood stem cells collection procedures are neither unethical nor they cause any harm or pain to the woman donating blood. From a donor menstrual blood can be collected for over 35 years. Starting from the age of 12 years it can be donated till the donor is about 47 years old. read more

What Are Embryonic Stem Cells?

By: Joseph C. | 2010-04-02 | Medicine
Any embryonic cell at the stage of 2 or 4 cells is capable in itself to reform an embryo: it is a totipotent cell. But then, this ability disappears. read more

Ophthalmology to Benefit from Stem Cell Research

By: WhereismyDoctor | 2010-12-07 | Vision
Doctors will use human embryonic stem cells to advance treatment for retina disease. Macular degeneration, which accounts for vision loss, is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The use of human embryonic stem cells is highly controversial; however, doctors are extremely confident in the ophthalmological advances the treatment could pose. read more

Types of Stem Cells: An Outline

By: Pooja Sharma | 2012-03-22 | Women's Health
Stem Cell is a young, primordial and undifferentiated entity with an outstanding potential to replenish, differentiate and develop into any desired tissue or organ of the body. read more

Donate Menstrual Blood And Contribute In The Stem Cell Research

By: Akmol | 2011-01-28 | Diabetes
Stem cells are those cells that replace the damaged cells of the body with new one. Generally, there are three sources for extracting the stem cells from the body. One is from the embryo that is called as embryonic stem cells. Second from adult tissues called as adult stem cells. The third one is extracted from umbilical cord blood but it is only possible during delivery. read more