Smalltooth sawfish develop their signature, long, tooth-lined snout while still in the womb. The needle-sharp teeth are encased in a specialized sheath that prevents the rays from cutting up their mother and siblings during gestation and birth. Now, scientists have gotten their first close-up look at this built-in pocket protector.
“It’s a cool thing Mother Nature figured out to protect mom from those calcified teeth and protect siblings from sword fighting in the uterus,” says fish biologist Gregg Poulakis of
Before any major operation key members of the surgical team meet to discuss logistics – but it is rare to find as eminent and wide-ranging a group as the one assembled at Oxford’s Churchill hospital one chilly morning last February.
Not just the health but the happiness of two very special patients was at stake. In a ground-breaking British first, a 40-year-old woman (a mother of two) was about to donate her womb to her younger sister, in the hope
Jessica Alves wants to be ‘first in the queue’ for a pioneering trans womb operation, when science catches up to her dream of becoming a mother.
The trans star, who gave up on getting the operation in 2021 , told MailOnline she was still dreaming of one day having a belly bump.
Prominent experts in the field anticipate the pioneering transplants will be ready for trans women — who were born male — within the next few years.
And Jessica,
Ein mit Harvard verbundenes Kinderkrankenhaus hat Empörung ausgelöst, nachdem behauptet wurde, einige Babys wüssten, dass sie „vom Mutterleib an“ Transgender seien.
In einem jetzt gelöschten Video schlug das Boston Children’s Hospital vor, dass eine noch größere Anzahl von Minderjährigen Bescheid weiß, „sobald sie sprechen können“.
Kritiker sagten gegenüber DailyMail.com, die Behauptung beruhe nicht auf wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und deuteten an, dass Mediziner in der Klinik nicht bereit seien, Kinder zu befragen, die oft gefährdet sind.
Das Krankenhaus, das Teil des medizinischen
A mother-of-three has had her breasts and womb removed at 27 after being diagnosed with a gene mutation that put her in high risk of developing cancer.
Haley Kelly, 27, from Fernandina Beach, Florida, lost her grandmother to ovarian cancer and great-grandmother to breast cancer.
When she was nine-years-old her mother was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, and tests revealed she had the BRCA1 mutation, meaning Haley had a 50 per cent chance of inheriting it.
Aged 20, Haley
