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Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 15:46:04 PDT
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Subject: [NOVA] "Life's Greatest Miracle"
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NEXT ON NOVA: "LIFE'S GREATEST MIRACLE"
http://www.pbs.org/nova/miracle/ Broadcast: April 13, 2004
When it first aired in 1983, the NOVA program "Miracle of Life" was
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Great Expectations: A Woman's Journal
Windows on the Womb
The Stem-Cell Debate
How Cells Divide
How Is Sex Determined?
Also, Resources and a Teacher's Guide.
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hailed as revolutionary. Famed Swedish photographer Lennart
Nilsson's stunning endoscopic images of life inside the womb opened
up a hidden world that few had ever seen. "Life's Greatest Miracle"
showcases Nilsson's most recent photography while at the same time
touching on the latest advances in our understanding of fertilization
and embryonic and fetal development.
View the entire hour-long program online in QuickTime
or RealVideo.
In this daily journal, follow along as a mother-to-be describes
the joys and hopes, the trials and tribulations of undergoing
pregnancy and giving birth.
Doctors today have myriad techniques for tracking the growth and
health of a baby throughout pregnancy. Here, explore a bevy of
currently available diagnostic and screening techniques, which
are changing the nature of both pregnancy and parenthood.
In this essay drawn from his new book, Dartmouth ethicist Ronald
Green, a one-time member of the National Institutes of Health's
Human Embryo Research Panel, brings clarity, balance, and
insight to the controversial issue of using human stem cells in
biomedical research.
Most of the time, when a cell in our bodies divides, each new
cell carries a complete set of chromosomes. The cells involved
with reproduction, however, carry only half after division
occurs. In this step-by-step explanation, learn about mitosis
and meiosis, the two types of cell division.
The sex of an egg cell is set as soon as it is fertilized, but
what happens to that cell and the cells it divides into to make
a baby boy or girl? Find out here.
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