UK’s first successful womb transplant – key questions answered: Helena Nechaeva/Shutterstock The news that the first successful UK womb transplant has been performed at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford has been greeted as the “dawn of a new era” in reproductive medicine. The recipient is a 34-year-old woman born without a womb, and the donor …
Claims that foetuses are surrounded by bacteria in the womb are incorrect – new review: Turns out it is a sterile environment after all. Rawpixel/Shutterstock When a baby is born, its immune system is already developed to survive in a world full of germs. This developmental process is not only important for the baby but …
Baby infected with coronavirus in the womb — new study: Velishchuk Yevhen/Shutterstock A pregnant woman with suspected COVID-19 was rushed by ambulance to Skåne University Hospital, in Malmo, Sweden, suffering from sudden severe abdominal pain. The doctors noticed that the unborn infant had an abnormally low heart rate, which can be a sign that the …
Giant ancient sharks had enormous babies that ate their siblings in the womb: Megalodons are the biggest predatory sharks ever discovered. from www.shutterstock.com Made famous by the 2018 blockbuster The Meg, the largest predatory shark ever discovered, the megalodon, is a bit of a mystery. We know it lived between 15 and 3.6 million years …
Medical law expert on womb transplants, unisex pregnancy, and the ‘right to gestate’: Shutterstock Could a womb be transplanted into a transgender woman – or even cisgender (non-transgender) men? Could pregnancy soon be unisex? These questions may sound as though they come from a sci-fi novel, but this week these speculative questions were seriously posed …
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