Fertility clinics could face major problems from fluorescent lighting.
In fact both sunlight and cool-white fluorescent lights caused the most damage to mice embryos, it was found in a study conducted by a team from Hawaii and Japan.
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Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, a retired University of Hawaii researcher known for his expertise in reproductive biology said .
Warm-white lights, which are yellow-white in color and popular in residential settings, resulted in "far more" eggs developing into babies, Yanagimachi said.
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"We found that warm-white light is less damaging," Yanagimachi said.
The findings were published in the Aug. 13 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Cool-white fluorescents, which are blue-white in appearance, are commonly used in office environments.
Although this study focused on mouse embryo development, it is likely human embryos also can be affected by light, said Yanagimachi, who researched with Manami Takenaka and Toshitaka Horiuchi of the Prefectural University of Hiroshima.
He suggested that labs working with human or animal embryos should improve their techniques so that exposure to light is minimized during egg collection and insemination, and while fertilized eggs are examined before being transferred back into the womb.
"People do not pay much attention to light as a negative environmental factor," he said.
Exposure of mice embryos to direct sunlight, even for just 10 seconds, caused the most damage, according to the study.
Light exposure places stress on the embryo, which responds by producing increased levels of radical oxygen that are toxic to cell structures, Yanagimachi said.
Even before his study, Yanagimachi said he preferred warm-white light for his work, which has including cloning a mouse in 1998 and creating three generations of mice from the first clone.
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Mice can Produce Embryonic Stem Cells Similar to That of Humans
Researchers from Oxford and Cambridge universities have made a breakthrough in stem cell technology by discovering that mice can produce embryonic stem cells very similar to those
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"We found that warm-white light is less damaging," Yanagimachi said.
The findings were published in the Aug. 13 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Cool-white fluorescents, which are blue-white in appearance, are commonly used in office environments.
Although this study focused on mouse embryo development, it is likely human embryos also can be affected by light, said Yanagimachi, who researched with Manami Takenaka and Toshitaka Horiuchi of the Prefectural University of Hiroshima.
He suggested that labs working with human or animal embryos should improve their techniques so that exposure to light is minimized during egg collection and insemination, and while fertilized eggs are examined before being transferred back into the womb.
"People do not pay much attention to light as a negative environmental factor," he said.
Exposure of mice embryos to direct sunlight, even for just 10 seconds, caused the most damage, according to the study.
Light exposure places stress on the embryo, which responds by producing increased levels of radical oxygen that are toxic to cell structures, Yanagimachi said.
Even before his study, Yanagimachi said he preferred warm-white light for his work, which has including cloning a mouse in 1998 and creating three generations of mice from the first clone.
Source: Medindia
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