STUDY SHOWS PLAN FOR HUMAN BODY IS LAID OUT MOMENTS AFTER CONCEPTION

Lifesite/Nature ^ | July 9, 2002

[nickcarraway]

STUDY SHOWS PLAN FOR HUMAN BODY IS LAID OUT MOMENTS AFTER CONCEPTION

OXFORD, UK, July 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Richard Gardner, an embryologist at the University of Oxford, UK, has repeated little known experiments first conducted in the 1980s in Flushing, New York by Jean Smith of Queen's College which demonstrate that the human body is shaped beginning at the moment of conception/fertilization. Which side of the microscopic embryo will form the back and head, are not left to later development as has been believed by embryologists, but are set out in the minutes and hours after the sperm and egg unite to form a new human being.

The July 4 issue of the scientific journal Nature reports that "Just five years ago...mammalian embryos were thought to spend their first few days as a featureless orb of cells. Only later, at about the time of implantation into the wall of the uterus, were cells thought to acquire distinct 'fates' determining their positions in the future body."

Researchers tagged specific points on mammalian embryos (blastocysts) shortly after fertilization successfully demonstrating that they come to lie at predictable points in the embryo. "Rather than being a naive sphere, it seems that a newly fertilized egg has a defined top-bottom axis that sets up the equivalent axis in the future embryo," says Nature. Some studies suggest that such differentiation happens as early as the two celled stage.

The journal concludes from the study: "What is clear is that developmental biologists will no longer dismiss early mammalian embryos as featureless bundles of cells - and that leaves them with some work to do."

Click Here (link available only with paid registration or you may purchase full article): http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v418/n6893/full/41801 4a_fs.html

[ccmay]

Not only does the fetus have a top and bottom, but a left and right and a front and back as well. Asymmetry in 3 planes. How does the developing embryo know which way is which? Why do not 50% of individuals have their hearts to the right of midline instead of the left?

One of my embryology professors believed that this was proof enough for him of the existence of God. I already believed in God, but I gladly took this as a wonderful manifestation of His presence in our lives.

-ccm

[Guenevere]

Well said!

[Psalm 73]

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers' womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:13-16

Ah, science finally catches up to scripture!

[Jemian]

BTTT

[syriacus]

What is clear is that developmental biologists will no longer dismiss early mammalian embryos as featureless bundles of cells - and that leaves them with some work to do."

I'm a little suprised that they this information wasn't suppressed. It will be very interesting to see how NARAL explains this away.

[B4Ranch]

What was your professors answer to abortion?

[el_chupacabra]

"Rather than being a naive sphere, it seems that a newly fertilized egg has a defined top-bottom axis that sets up the equivalent axis in the future embryo,"

Could someone explain for me what distinction Nature has made between a "future embryo" and an "embryo"?

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Good post.

[Siobhan]

An excellent post worth reading by all. Thank you nick!

[sitetest]

Thanks for the ping.

[EODGUY]

I'm certain this very enlightening information will be the major topic of discussion on all the major networks tomorrow morning. /sarcasm off/

Great post Nick. Thanks for the ping, Siobhan.


EODGUY

[Siobhan]

An evening bump for important pro-life information.

[Salvation]

The truth will set us free.

The truth about abortuaries.

[EODGUY]

Perhaps this extremely important article should be bumped everyday for infrequent freepers?


EODGUY

[Siobhan]

Good idea, EODGUY! Let's keep bumping this each day.

God bless you,
Siobhan

[AKA Elena]

By way of a bump for this excellent article I would like to ask that you pray for the repose of the soul of my brother, Daniel Michael Martin, who entered eternity on 7/14/02 ... losing his seven year long, continuous battle against cancer. He died, two weeks short to the day... of the first anniversary of our Mom's entering Eternity.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I'm so sorry for your loss. It sounds like it's been a tough year for you. I will keep him and the rest of the family in my prayers.

[smorgle]

I think the distinction is between a newly fertilized egg, called a blastocyst, and the later, more developed embryo.