How damaged eggs are weeded out
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Scientists identify a protein that helps detect DNA damage in eggs which could help treat female infertility.
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NEW YORK  - Deep-freezing embryos has been routine for some time, to give infertile couples reproduction choices in various situations, but freezing unfertilized eggs has proven difficult.
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A Southern ground-hornbill sits on her nest, left, at Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City Friday. Right, Rusty Rusin holds a hornbill egg to a light, called "candling," to assess the unhatched chick's health.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Australian researchers have found a fatty diet damages eggs in the ovaries and prevents them from becoming healthy embryos, a finding they say may explain why obese women are often infertile.
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The Timaru Rowing Club's weed problems in Saltwater Creek will not be easily solved.   Environment Canterbury (Ecan) has no statutory obligation to clear the weed unless it becomes a flood issue.
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By LUBNA TAKRURI  WASHINGTON - Drivers on their way to breakfast in northern Virginia on Saturday found it all over the road after nearly 165,000 eggs spilled out of an overturned tractor-trailer on the Capital Beltway.
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The nation's fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become pregnant.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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By zen, Damla Bender  In this study, the use of composted hazelnut husk (CHH) as an alternative substrate for a horticultural crop, tomato (cv. Ancon), was evaluated. Before use, the CHH was separated into three different fraction sizes, 0-2 mm, 2-4 m m and 4-6.35 mm.
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An estimated 118,000 cases on salmonella illness occur each year due to contaminated eggs. Symptoms can lead to mild to severe gastrointestinal illness, short term or chronic arthritis, or death, the FDA said.
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Q:I have heard about sheet mulching. How is it done?   A: Sheet mulching is a soil amending technique that saves labor, time and water. It also reduces waste materials, weed populations and produces an excellent planting soil.
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The American bald eagle, pushed to  near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is  now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species  list, the U.S. interior secretary said on Thursday.
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Â· Farmers say soft fruit may be left unharvestedÂ· Fewer EU migrants seeking farm jobs
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Parasite eggs can sometimes be just the thing to bring families together.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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Storms probably carried soybean rust spores into Louisiana this year. Next year, Iowa might be hit. Washington, DC - A fungus that can seriously damage soybean plants has been spotted in Louisiana, the first
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Every year, in vitro fertilization clinics produce more embryos than they use in helping women get pregnant. A new study shows a wide discrepancy in what happens to the extras, from incineration to freezing. By Kristen Philipkoski.