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involves the administration of andro- gens, usually with a progestin every 2–3 months, to suppress pituitary gonadotrophic suppo ...
cancer (http://tinyurl.com/p3qw82p) and high-grade prostate cancer (http://tinyurl.com/ob7qcmj). Clearly this lack of definitive ...
A ustralia is currently ranked as one of the fattest nations in the world. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that a st ...
This leads to poor embryo development, with many of the embryos derived from “obese eggs” failing to develop to the stage at whi ...
parent to child. However, experiments in which animals are fed a high-fat diet to mimic obesity are able to better pinpoint how ...
W omen who are pregnant for the first time are largely unaware that the four main complications of pregnancy – pre - eclampsia, ...
Each person carries a unique combination of millions of gene variants, so we all have protective and deleterious gene variants t ...
Epigenetic Risks Although a person’s DNA code is identical in every cell, differ- ences in the DNA’s epigenetic state can determ ...
P remature birth is defined as birth before 37 completed weeks of gestation. It is now identi- fied by the World Health Organisa ...
Inflammatory mechanisms are clearly implicated in all of these insults, but how these channel both infectious and sterile trigge ...
of birth, indicating that this molecule is required for the normal timing of the birth cascade. Now the search is on for the nat ...
T he most common rationale for the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in humans is to increase the chance of concep ...
erties. It is a testimony to these early studies that no superior alter- natives to these biological products have been identifi ...
sperm with a DNA-binding fluorescent dye, exciting the indi- vidual sperm with a laser and then measuring the intensity of the l ...
S ynthetic and naturally occurring chemicals released into the environment can have disastrous effects on reproduction, and are ...
sure to environmental toxicants during early development in the womb. EEDs can interfere with the normal hormonal cues required ...
typically thought of as male hormones but they have impor- tant roles in both sexes. Testosterone is an androgen, and a reductio ...
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In 2015, life sciences company Sigma- Aldrich approached a number o Australian academics, including myself, with the broad quest ...
“The shortlist represents sites that are all of an excellent stan- dard to host such a facility. The important task now is engag ...
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