The evolution of biomedical science can be appreciated through studies of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in red cells. Before molecular cloning, the geneticist Arno Motulsky noted, “Many ...

The blueprint of the adult brain may be mapped out far earlier than we thought. In fact, some 60 percent of the circuits that make up the adult brain may take shape before we are even born, according ...

Researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among immune cells that fight invading pathogens in the body. Cornell University researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among ...

PHILADELPHIA, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a proof-of-concept treatment for blood disorders like sickle cell disease and ...

While it is generally believed that fetuses are at high risk of developing cancers, including leukemia, after low doses of radiation, it has been reported that atomic bomb survivors exposed in utero ...

The fundamental organization of brain networks is established in utero during the second and third trimesters of fetal development, according to research published in JNeurosci. The finding lays the ...

Fetal OPCs were extracted from 21- to 23-week-old human fetuses obtained at abortion. The forebrain ventricular and subventricular zones were dissected free and chilled on ice. The minced samples were ...

Extract: Intrauterine exchange transfusions were conducted in fetal sheep using adult sheep as donors. Indwelling catheters in the fetus permitted sampling of blood for 8 to 36 days following the ...

An embryo starts out as just a single cell. It’s not long before it divides into two cells, then four, then eight, and so on — a process marked by rapid growth, in which these early, unspecialized ...

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept treatment for blood disorders like sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia that could raise hemoglobin levels by activating production of both fetal and ...