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In the comment of our last human hair embroidery post, Neatoramanaut Louisa alerted us to the fantastic series of "fiber-based" artwork by Kate Kretz.
Ebb, the hair embroidery of the sleeping eyes above, is deliciously done on a pillowcase.
The gorgeous Heart Center is a human heart with embroidered veins and arteries ...
And my favorite, Kate's Fertilization Purse, cleverly uses fake pearls fashioned as sperms!
Check out more of Kate Kretz' art at her Flickr photoset All Fiber-Based Work, website, and blog - Thanks Louisa!
What if you could put your baby on hold for twenty years? Would you do it? Scientists have now been able to achieve just that.
Imagine being born at the age of 20. Doctors at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Virginia have made history by implanting a 20 year old frozen embryo and having it successfully brought to term.
Some animals have been bred in space, but not mammals. Japanese researchers are looking into the possibility, and doing experiments with mice on earth that mimic lower gravity space conditions.
To test these effects, the researchers artificially fertilized mouse eggs with sperm that had been stored inside a three-dimensional clinostat, a machine that mimics weightlessness by rotating objects in such a way that the effects of gravity are spread in every direction.
Fertilization took place normally, suggesting that microgravity hadn’t harmed the sperm. But as the embryos continued to develop inside the clinostat, many developed problems. Their cells had trouble dividing and maturing.
There were some baby mice produced after the embryos were implanted, but not many survived compared to a control group. Link -via Digg
