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Illustrative: Research assistant Katie McCullough holds a mouse in a Washington University lab where doctors study a rare form of autism, December 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
April 9, 2026, 7:44 pm
With a switch of a letter in DNA ‘dark matter,’ Israeli scientists change sex of mouse
Bar-Ilan University researchers use CRISPR tool to alter Enh13 switch controlling Sox9 gene, causing XX mice to develop as males; study may help explain other genetic mutations
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A police car is seen at a crime scene in Hadera on April 28, 2025. (Flash90)
January 17, 2026, 3:00 pm
Apparent human fetus found in drain under Hadera residential building
Residents said to have discovered 23-week-old fetus in sewer after days of plumbing issues; unclear if it was aborted or miscarried
By ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of an abdominal ultrasound during early pregnancy. (AlexRaths via iStock by Getty Images)
August 20, 2023, 9:01 pm
New technology enables researchers to better understand early placental development
Advanced tool gives US-Israeli team a clear picture of the arteries, cells, and proteins involved in the maternal-fetal interface; findings may help prevent pregnancy complications
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Noa Ofek Shlomai, head of neonatology at Hadassah Medical Center, holds the baby who successfully underwent surgery immediately following birth to correct bilateral ovarian torsion detected in-utero. Next to them are Dr. Dan Arbel (center), director of the pediatric oncology surgery department, and Dr. Shay Porat, director of the obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound service. (courtesy)
July 31, 2023, 9:27 pm
In what it says is world first, Hadassah medical team saves fetus’s twisted ovaries
As clock ticks, doctors deliver and perform immediate surgery on 35-week preemie, in bid to preserve her future fertility and hormonal health
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A fetus inside the womb (iStock via Getty Images)
May 24, 2023, 6:24 pm
Hospital finds five stillborn fetuses were never returned to families for burial
Eilat’s Yoseftal Medical Center says it was only recently made aware that remains sent to lab for autopsies in separate incidents five-to-eight years ago weren’t returned
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative -- In this May 15, 2018, photo, a scientist picks up a vial containing frozen donor sperm samples in a lab in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
October 1, 2022, 3:11 pm
Probable biological mother in embryo mix-up: ‘I wish I could hug the other woman’
‘We’re both victims of this terrible error,’ she says of woman pregnant with wrong embryo. ‘I wish I could cry with her’; couple learned from TV that fetus is female
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann; iStock by Getty Images)
September 28, 2022, 10:57 pm
Couple who was implanted with wrong embryo: ‘They can’t take it away’
In first public remarks, husband and wife who received the wrong embryo rail against hospital behind the mix-up, say they don’t want to give up the baby
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A lab in an IVF clinic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
September 18, 2022, 12:18 am
Hospital stops accepting new IVF applicants after embryo mixup
Assuta Medical Center claims it halted new procedures on its own initiative, but TV report says Health Ministry decided to sanction the hospital
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A lab in an IVF clinic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
September 17, 2022, 12:46 am
Hospital says it likely identified woman whose embryo was placed in another’s uterus
Assuta Medical Center says it has narrowed list of possible women from 40 to 10; individual it believes with high probability is biological mother has been updated
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann; iStock by Getty Images)
September 16, 2022, 9:44 am
Hospital embroiled in fertility debacle previously lost another embryo — report
Israeli TV says patients came to financial settlement with clinic; Assuta Medical Center scrabbles to find biological parents of mismatched fetus in current case
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: A pregnant woman at a hospital. (iStock via Getty Images)
September 14, 2022, 11:35 pm
Woman discovers fetus she’s carrying after IVF is not genetically hers
Health Ministry vows to immediately establish panel to probe rare incident; hospital says it’s looking for embryo’s biological parents
By ToI Staff
A diabetic woman injects herself with insulin (dzika_mrowka via iStock by Getty Images)
December 9, 2021, 6:16 pm
Israeli scientists say humans may have ‘backup’ insulin system diabetics could use
Researchers identify insulin-producing apparatus in fetuses that they believe lies ‘dormant’ after birth but may one day be reactivated to address problems
By Nathan Jeffay
Medical staff work at the COVID-19 isolation ward of Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on September 9, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
February 27, 2021, 11:56 pm
Fetus infected with COVID-19 dies in womb, in 2nd such case in Israel
36-week-pregnant woman infected with coronavirus arrived at hospital after feeling ill; Meir Medical Center says it can’t link death to virus yet
By ToI Staff
A ward at the Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod for people infected with the coronavirus, March 16, 2020 (Flash90)
February 16, 2021, 2:19 pm
Hospital says ‘high probability’ fetus died of virus, in 1st such case in Israel
Fetus infected via mother’s placenta; 25-week-pregnant woman had symptoms, went to hospital after realizing there was no fetal movement
By ToI Staff
This photo provided by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office shows Marshae Jones. Jones, whose fetus died after she was shot in a fight has been charged with manslaughter, while the woman accused of shooting her has been freed. She was indicted by the Jefferson County grand jury Wednesday, June 26, 2019. She was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December altercation regarding the fetus's father. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
July 1, 2019, 2:43 am
Shot Alabama woman who miscarried faces homicide charge
Police say mother instigated fight in which she was shot five times, leading to loss of fetus; ‘only true victim in this was the unborn baby’
By AFP
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