Tag: babies

Early mouse fetuses generated without sperm or eggs for first time

For the first time, artificial mouse embryos have started growing into early fetuses, but we are still a long way off making babies without sperm or eggs Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220321-early-mouse-fetuses-generated-without-sperm-or-eggs-for-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Mother’s attention may shape baby’s hormone system and temperament

Babies who are touched, talked to and paid more attention by caregivers develop more receptors for the “cuddle chemical” oxytocin over their first 18 months Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220192-mothers-attention-may-shape-babys-hormone-system-and-temperament/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Baby Advice for New Parents: How to Get Newborn to Sleep

Listen to Mary Kohn of the University of Colorado share newborn baby care tips for right after birth and more. She covers if you can hold a newborn too much, how to get newborns to sleep without being held, and when babies sleep through the night naturally. Want to hear more from Mary? Enroll for […]
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Baby Advice for New Parents: How to Get a Newborn to Sleep

Listen to Mary Kohn of the University of Colorado share newborn baby care tips for right after birth and more. She covers if you can hold a newborn too much, how to get newborns to sleep without being held, and when babies sleep through the night naturally. Want to hear more from Mary? Enroll for […]
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Human Babies In the Womb Have Lizard-Like Hand Muscles

dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Babies in the womb have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands that most will lose before they are born, medical scans reveal. They are probably one of the oldest, albeit fleeting, remnants of evolution seen in humans yet, biologists say, in the journal Development. They date them as 250 million years old — a…

Putin Could Decide For the World On CRISPR Babies

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: According to Bloomberg, top Russian geneticists held a “secret meeting” this summer with government health officials in Moscow to debate a bid by a scientist there, Denis Rebrikov, to create babies genetically modified with the gene-editing technology CRISPR. The first such children were born in China last year as part of…