House Digest

What Clear Eggs Are A Warning Sign Of In The Garden, And What To Do Next

Uninvited guests always find their way to gardens, but some need to be thwarted quickly. If you see clear eggs, get rid of ...
Animalogic on MSN

How a Worm Turns Snails Into Walking Disco Lights for Birds

The green-banded broodsac doesn’t just infect its host, it puppeteers it. Inside the snail’s body, it grows and pulses until the snail becomes a living lure for birds. Every flicker of light in the ...
Crazy Creatures on MSN

The Parasite That Turns Snails Into Pulsating Zombie Disco Balls

In the forests of Europe, a snail begins to glow and pulse in neon hues. It’s not alive in the way it once was, it’s ...
Fox2Now St. Louis

150 invasive Chinese mystery snails found in mid-Missouri lake

MARSHALL, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation recently confirmed the presence of 150 invasive Chinese mystery snails in a mid-Missouri lake. MDC staff collected and removed more than 150 ...
The Independent

Scientists fertilise eggs from human skin cells in major pregnancy breakthrough

Scientists have discovered a way to fertilise eggs made from the genetic material of human skin cells. The findings, researchers said, have “immense therapeutic potential” for people who have no ...
NPR

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...
Newsweek

Breakthrough As Human Eggs Made From Skin Cells

For the first time, scientists have created fertilizable human eggs from skin cells—an advance that the researchers say could pave the way for new infertility treatments, though the technology remains ...
The Straits Times

Human skin cells turned into fertilisable eggs for first time

Scientists created human eggs from skin cells and fertilised them with sperm in a lab, a potential infertility treatment. The process, called IVG, used somatic cell nuclear transfer and "mitomeiosis" ...
Wired

Scientists Made Human Eggs From Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos

In a controversial step that raises the possibility of a new kind of infertility treatment, scientists report that they have produced functional human eggs in the lab that were able to be fertilized ...
The Economist

A new technique can turn a woman’s skin cells into eggs

MANY COUPLES struggle to conceive. Some are helped by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation). But if the woman has no usable eggs to fertilise, they must either give up or use a donor. Researchers have thus ...
CNN

Scientists use human skin cells to create functional eggs, opening a door to new infertility treatments

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...