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Century-Old Eggs Brought to Life

Monday, July 20th, 2009 - 13:59:22 - Ehud Rattner

Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the...

Father's Sperm Is Much More Complex

Monday, June 15th, 2009 - 15:55:06 - Ehud Rattner

It was long believed that conception does not involve a meeting of equals. The egg is a relatively large, impressive biological factory compared with...

Flies to Triumph Over Alien Ants?

Saturday, May 16th, 2009 - 12:40:16 - Anuradha Menon

A decades-long battle against invasive fire ants in the southern U.S. might be turning a corner, thanks to a nightmarish little fly. Fire ants are...

Reprogram Stem Cells into Eggs and Sperm

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - 18:25:48 - Anuradha Menon

For the first time, UCLA researchers have reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the cells that eventually become eggs and...

'Bad Egg' Gas Controls Blood Flow

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 - 13:55:46 - Ehud Rattner

As the smell of rotten eggs wafts past your nostrils, you're more likely to be revulsed than relaxed. Yet researchers have now shown that the 'bad...

First 24 Hours of an Embryo's Cells

Friday, October 10th, 2008 - 18:10:56 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have generated a digital zebrafish embryo - the first complete developmental...

Three-Parent Embryo Created in a Lab
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 - Einat Rotman
Scientists at the Newcastle University in the U.K. have successfully implanted embryo nucleuses, containing DNA from a...