Progesterone, a female hormone that can be used as a therapy for endometrial cancer, eliminates tumor cells indirectly by binding to its receptor in stromal or connective tissue cells residing in the tumor microenvironment, according to a study from the G.O. Discovery Lab team and collaborators at UCLA.
Month: June 2013
Woman Gives Birth Using Dead Man’s Frozen Sperm
A three-week-old baby, will never get to meet her father, who died of cancer six years ago. Neither has her mother ever met the man – she underwent the first artificial insemination in Israel from a deceased man’s sperm. The man’s parents chose the woman to be the mother of their granddaughter.
Experimental Male Birth Control Puts Gold in Your Testes
What would you do for a long-lasting, but reversible male birth control? It’d be something you could get done once in a while, like some forms of hormonal birth control for women, instead of having to remember every time you have sex, like you do with condoms.
Why a Catholic School Teacher Was Fired for an IVF Pregnancy And Why She Was Awarded $171,000
When Christa Dias became pregnant, she was a computer teacher for two schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Holy Family and St. Lawrence. She shared the good news with her principal when she was ready to plan her maternity leave, at five and a half months. Her principal congratulated her, but other school and church officials did not think the impending birth of this particular child was cause for celebration, because Dias is not married. She was fired three days later.
Moving Forward In Stem Cell Research By Rewinding Development
Scientists at the Danish Stem Cell Center, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that they can make embryonic stem cells regress to a stage of development where they are able to make placenta cells as well as the other fetal cells. This significant discovery, published in the journal Cell Reports today, has the potential to shed new light on placenta related disorders that can lead to problematic pregnancies and miscarriages.
Erectile Dysfunction Much More Common Among Young Men Than Previously Thought
According to a new analysis, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the number of young men suffering from erectile dysfunction may be much higher than previously thought.
Common Genetic Disease Linked To Father’s Age
Scientists at USC have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan Syndrome are so common: a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father’s production of sperm carrying the disease trait.
Only Place Contraception is Controversial is Politics
On June 7, 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court legalized contraception (for married people, at least) and held that women and men have the right to privacy in making decisions about their sexual health. The case recognized, in law, the principle that women and men — not government — should decide when and how to plan their families, and paved the way for programs and policies that help women make health care decisions that affect their educational opportunities, their professional work, and their families.
For Men, Infertility Often Becomes a Private Heartache
That’s what the good people inside the building call it: a sample. They never call it “sperm” or “semen.” And they don’t call it “your dream of having a family,” though everyone knows that’s what it is.
Infertility Due to Old Eggs? An Anti-Aging Pioneer Ponders Solutions
One of the many ways in which humans’ evolved characteristics clash with a fast-changing post-industrial society can be seen in the female egg.