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My water broke, amniotic fluid is trickling out with a few big gushes.
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Labor has officially started!!
My water broke, amniotic fluid is trickling out with a few big gushes.
Getting the Sac
The amniotic membrane or amnion protects and is vital to the embryo during pregnancy. Now a 3D stem cell-derived lab-grown model – a post-gastrulation amnioid – complete with amniotic fluid closely resembling that found in pregnancy, has been developed to aid its study.
Read the published research article here
Video from work by Borzo Gharibi and colleagues
Quantitative Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Cell, May 2025
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2019. Ink on paper.
"Of the 7 and the 5" [Digital Collage, 2017]
I love so much more than I'll ever EVER get back. My heart is set on default as it beats for the beautiful eyes looking back at me. Beautiful but complicated and glosses over because behind them are visions and a future without me in it. A visual scenario plays out behind those eyes...as I am pleading for reciprocated love. A scenic view where the grass is so much greener than the weed drenched thirsty lawn I currently strive to call our home.
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Old postcard of the tightly manicured grounds of Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., while celebrating the august life of Doctor Adlai Aubert of the Wolf/Coyote Hybrid and Alumni Affairs depts. “I’m not a mad doctor,” he was fond of saying, “Just a little angry.”
Though focusing the bulk of his attention on the whole wolf/coyote mashup thing, Aubert served as Baby Gruenwald’s personal physician from 1933 to 1947, the point at which the baby noticed the contents of his milk bottle tasting distinctly of wolf/coyote amniotic fluid.
FUN FACT: For what we are told were purely reasons of personal vanity, no photos exist of the good doctor without surgical mask and cap.