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Lab 4 Online Assessment

  1. The allantois, identified in the placental cord, is continuous with what anatomical structure?
  2. Identify the 3 vascular shunts, and their location, in the embryonic circulation.
  3. Identify the Group project sub-section that you will be researching. (Add to project page and your individual assessment page)



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Lab 4 Online Assessment

  1. The allantois, identified in the placental cord, is continuous with what anatomical structure?
  2. Identify the 3 vascular shunts, and their location, in the embryonic circulation.
  3. Identify the Group project sub-section that you will be researching. (Add to project page and your individual assessment page)



Lab 1

Questions

  1. Identify the origin of In Vitro Fertilization and the 2010 nobel prize winner associated with this technique.
  2. Identify a recent paper on fertilisation and describe its key findings.
  3. Identify 2 congenital anomalies.

Answers

  1. Robert G. Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Prize for his IVF work which led to the birth of the first IVF baby Louise Brown, born at the Royal Oldham Hospital Manchester, England.
  2. A recent paper on predicting how sucessful IVF treatment would be for specific individuals has come out with its finding that predetermined factors (such as maternal age, how long infertility has persisted for and if the maternal oocyte was used) can indicate the sucess of fertility treatment as opposed to a simple probability for a sucessful treatment. PLoS Medicine: Predicting Live Birth Preterm Delivery, and Low Birth Weight in Infants Born from In Vitro Fertilisation: A Prospective Study of 144,018 Treatment Cycles
  3. Downs Syndrome and hemophilia


--Amanda Tan 12:55, 28 July 2011 (EST)