How Can a Baby Have 3 Parents?June 15, 2018 |
It seems impossible, right? We have been taught from the time we were young that babies are made when a sperm and an egg come together, and the DNA from these two cells combine to make a unique individual with half the DNA from the mother and half from the father. So how can there be a third person involved in this process?
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There is a general shortage of information about the safety of medications used during pregnancy—largely because any woman who is pregnant, was recently pregnant, or might get pregnant is barred from participating in most of the clinical trials that evaluate drug safety and efficacy
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This small city-state could become the second country—after the United Kingdom—to explicitly legalize mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), a controversial assisted reproduction technique that allows women who are carriers of some rare genetic disorders to give birth to healthy babies
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What’s In Your Genome?May 24, 2018 |
Parents-to-be want to know. Every parent-to-be wants a healthy baby. And, when offered an opportunity, most couples want to know which disease-causing genes, or risk factors, they carry and could unwittingly pass to their children
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Vulnerable groups, such as children, prisoners and people with limited mental capacity, are usually excluded from drug trials. And, until quite recently, it was considered unethical to test drugs on pregnant women, too… But the tide is turning
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The Trauma of Having a Newborn in the NICUMarch 20, 2018 |
After premature births, parents can suffer from PTSD. Peer networks are forming to help
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Rapid DNA sequencing is helping doctors treat critically ill infants in days rather than weeks
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“It’s Important to Feel That Bond”March 6, 2018 |
Texas woman shares what it’s like to give birth with a transplanted uterusDa
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