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SIDS Monitoring with Sensored Romper

Most electronic baby monitors work by detecting sound—crying mostly.  But they cannot tell if an infant has stopped breathing, [MORE]

Fetal Sequencing from the Mother’s Blood

New Down's Test
Because a pregnant woman’s blood carries white blood cells of her own and her unborn child, it [MORE]

First Artificial Womb

8 Cell Embryo
Using a soft polymer bowl that mimics the mammalian uterus and tissue culture, researchers at the UK’s [MORE]

Sense4Baby, Wireless Fetal and Maternal Monitoring

Wireless Fetal Monitor
Earlier this year, the West Wireless Health Institute (San Diego, CA) began a two phase field test [MORE]

A Fertility Chip

Fertility Chip
By now, Ph.D. candidate Loes Segerick should have received her degree from the University of Twente (Enschede, The [MORE]

New Diagnostic for Metabolic Disease in Neonates

Tyrosinemia Type 1, like some other inherited amino acidurias, is a rare disease in most populations, but is treatable [MORE]

Getting More out of Guthrie Cards

Guthrie Card
While there is a perception that wide-spread genetic testing raises difficult ethical issues, the fact is that universal genetic [MORE]

Mother’s Blood Biomarkers for Fetal Genomics

Caputring Chromosomes
It’s an astonishing discovery-a fetus’s entire genome is present in the mother’s blood.  Small fragments of fetal DNA [MORE]

Balloon Solution for Postpartum Bleeding

Ebb Postpartum Hemorrhage
Based on the development work of Michael Belfort and Gary Dildy in Salt Lake City, Glenveigh Medical [MORE]

20 Year Old Embryo Finally Born

In 1990, a couple undergoing IVF stored five cryopreserved embryos after they completed their family.  Their aim was to [MORE]

Improving the Chances with in vitro Fertilization

Imaging Embryos
By taking time-lapse pictures in dark-field microscopy, a team from Stanford University’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and [MORE]

Heartbeats, More Complex than Supposed

For her PhD thesis in biophysics at the University of Virginia, Abigail Flower investigated the high variability of heart [MORE]

Sperm Counting Fertility Chip

Fertility Analyzer
Nanotechnologists at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) have developed a lab-on-a-chip which counts sperm as [MORE]

Telemedicine: Listening for Newborn’s Heart Murmur

Using a Philips 5500 ultrasound machine, connected to a Librestream Onsight 2000R video device, and a secured communications network (provided [MORE]