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Artificial fertilization of an egg. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Development by researchers at the Technion and the Embryonics company will significantly improve the success rates of in vitro fertilization

Summer pregnancy. Illustration: shutterstock

The connection between the flu vaccine in pregnancy and autism in the offspring has been ruled out

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A flu vaccine during pregnancy protects the children and women from illness, but does it also have long-term risks? A decade-long follow-up study refutes this.
Prof. Filipa Sofer. Photo: Technion spokespeople

In the West, a woman's fertility period is longer than in the third world

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The actual model on which the actual experiments were done (in the picture, the model is not connected to the breathing system)

Technology developed at the Technion will protect the airways of premature babies who need ventilation

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Diagram of the spatial interaction between the DNA control regions and the controlled genes. The "reporters" (in red and green) reveal these interactions. The laboratory of Dr. Yonatan Stanzler, Weizmann Institute

A cell following its fate

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A fertilized egg is tested. Photo from the laboratory of Dr. Aryeh Musayouf. Credit - Dr. Assaf Ben Meir

A new study indicates a link between the composition of lipids in the fluid around the egg and the development of a normal pregnancy

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Human embryo, from Wikipedia

Israeli researchers have developed a method that will enable the detection of thousands of genetic diseases in fetuses at the beginning of pregnancy through a blood test of the mother

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A mouse embryo and the genetically engineered placenta that feeds it. programmed for anorexic behavior. Photo: Weizmann Institute

programmed from birth

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Dr. Ravaki Ophir's stem cell laboratory, Ben Gurion University. Public relations photo

New fertility treatment for women and men

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Illustration: pixabay.

Fatal exposure in pregnancy

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Illustration: pixabay.

The placenta is the first organ of the fetus

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Photomicrograph of the formation of the abdominal midline. The middle nest is marked by the intracellular protein laminin (in red, see white arrow). The cells (colored green) migrate towards the midline but do not cross it

the starting line

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Caution: prenatal gene scan

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Laboratory. Illustration: shutterstock

Israeli research reveals a protein that prevents ovulation and may be used as a non-hormonal contraceptive

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Fetal Development. Illustration: shutterstock

Embryonic development and quantum optics

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Despite the high variation in body structure of adult animals (below), at the phylotypic stage (above) their embryos look very similar to each other.

The "molecular fingerprint" that characterizes embryonic development in the animal kingdom has been found

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sperm and egg cells. Illustration: shutterstock

Too dense speech

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The different location of different opsins on a human sperm cell, as seen under a microscope, revealed by fluorescent antibody labeling (in bright yellow)

Sperm cells navigate their way using vision proteins

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Fetus in his mother's womb. Illustration Creations/Shutterstock

First impressions - we begin to pick up words, react to food and coordinate our eyes and hands long before birth / Paris Jaber

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On the agenda - why fetuses should not be out of bounds

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Fetus in his mother's womb. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers have discovered a fetal source of mood swings and bipolar disorder

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Summer pregnancy. Illustration: shutterstock

The heat shortens the pregnancy

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Newborns in a maternity hospital. Photo: bibiphoto / Shutterstock.com

Research shows ways to improve the chances of babies born prematurely?

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A centriole as photographed with an electron microscope. Photo: © Pierre Gönczy/EPF

Beyond genes: do centrioles carry biological information?

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immune system. Illustration: shutterstock

Get vaccinated very early

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