womb
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"From the womb," she says, when I ask her when her passion started.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Zika can spread from a birthing parent to their child in the womb and cause congenital disabilities, which notoriously led to panic after an outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
It might be possible to find ways to predict, prevent or improve womb age, they say.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Commenting on the work, Prof Borut Kovacic, Chair-elect of ESHRE, said researchers are trying to better understand the "cross-talk" that happens between the implanting embryo and womb lining.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born....
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
With this new definition, people who need to “borrow” DNA and wombs from fertility helpers—egg donors, sperm donors, and gestational carriers—have more protection from being discriminated against at fertility clinics and by insurance companies.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2023
The development of artificial wombs represents a “big transformational leap” that “solves lots of issues,” says David.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Dr Stewart said some of those women are having to make "life-changing decisions" about having their ovaries, wombs and fallopian tubes removed to "manage their premenstrual symptoms".
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2023
Still, he and other neonatologists acknowledge that development of radical technology such as artificial wombs may be needed to move the needle much further.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Some had seven or eight and didn’t understand how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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