The Gender of a Child Determined at 6 Weeks of Pregnancy
	Are you eager to know the sex of your unborn child? Normally, you have to wait 4-5 months until ultrasound scanning can tell you that but, now, it is possible that you wait a shorter period of time. Many women are not even aware they’re pregnant at the date when this new method can already tell them if it’s a he or she they’re expecting. Lorgen GP (a spin-off of the University of Granada) and Fetal Medicine Unit of the Materni ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 10:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This is How the Placenta Developed
	A new organism develops inside the woman's womb due to the placenta, a special organ for delivering food and oxygen from the mother to the fetus. A new research made at the Stanford University School of Medicine and published in the journal Genome Research has revealed the first genetic clues about the ancient origins of the placenta. The study shows that the placenta of all mammals (humans included) evolved from a much simpler tis ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pregnancy Can Save Your Boobs!
	Most women fear that their breasts might get sagged after breastfeeding. But a new research shows that pregnancy could decrease a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, since the fetus transmits to its mother cells with protective abilities. The team at the University of Washington in Seattle U.S. Investigated 82 female subjects, 35 of whom had been found to have developed breast cancer, to check if fetal cells, which entered into th ... [read more >>]
	01 November 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Man That Carried a Parasite Twin Inside His Stomach for 36 Years!
	This story seems taken from the X-Files or a Stephen King novel, but it is in fact the most severe case of fetus in fetu ever recorded. It occurs in 1 in 500,000 live births and it is a developmental abnormality in which a parasitic twin fetus grows within its host twin. This phenomenon takes place very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The dominant fetus develops "normally", while ... [read more >>]
	02 August 2007, 14:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A 7-Legged Hermaphrodite Lamb!
	One more leg, and this would have been an octopus in disguise. A six-day-old lamb born at a veterinary clinic on New Zealand's South Island came to this world on its seven legs! "Two of the extra legs hang useless behind the lamb's forelegs. The animal has three hind legs, one of them with two hoofs. It walks using its two forelegs and three hind legs," the Ashburton Guardian newspaper said. The seven-legge ... [read more >>]
	02 August 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First "Fibroblast" Cloned Rabbit
	As if rabbits reproducing like mad (from one female you can get 60 rabbits with all her descendants) weren't enough, China has now succeeded in producing the world’s first cloned rabbit by employing a technology that takes cells from a fetus. "The female rabbit, which weighed 60 grams at birth in February, was now growing normally at an animal center in Shanghai," the China Daily said. Since the first clone ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia