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Gestational diabetes is a medical condition that causes blood sugar levels to become abnormally high, which manifests for the first-time during…
Diabetes in pregnancyGestational DiabetesPregnancy--ComplicationsHigh-Risk PregnancyDiabetes in womenPossums is a 174-page book consisting of a series of essays written about the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), the only living marsupial in…
LiteratureVirginia opossumEmbryologyMarsupialsNatural historyJeffrey Weinzweig and his team, in the US at the turn of the twenty-first century, performed a series of experiments on fetal goats to study the…
Fetus--SurgeryFetal growth disordersDiseases--Animal modelsAnimal models in researchGoatsDe ovi mammalium et hominis genesi (On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Men) is an 1827 pamphlet by Karl Ernst von Baer about the anatomical…
LiteratureBaer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876developmentAnatomy, ComparativeGerm CellsProgestin is a synthetic form of progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, which plays an important role in the female reproductive cycle. During…
TechnologyProgesteroneReproductionContraceptionThe concept Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) refers to a set of birth defects that occur in children born to mothers who abused alcohol during pregnancy…
fetal alcohol syndromeAbnormalities, HumanCentral Nervous SystemalcoholPregnancyThrough various studies developmental biologists have been able to determine that the muscles of the back, ribs, and limbs derive from somites.…
SomitesExperimentsSomatic cellsVertebratesWritten, produced, and directed by Toby Mcdonald, the 2005 National Geographic Channel film In the Womb uses the most recent technology to provide an…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentReproductionMoviesFetusWhen scientists discovered a 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of a child of the human lineage (hominin) in 2000, in the village of Hadar, Ethiopia, they…
Human remains (Archaeology)Prehistoric peoplesAntiquities, PrehistoricArcheologyAnthropology, PhysicalIn 1980 the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) released a report…
LiteratureCesarean SectionCesarean section--ComplicationsObstetricsFetus