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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, delivers a speech at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Participants at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons applaud after a speech by Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

People in spectator seating during the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons applaud after a speech by Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Participants at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons listen to a speech by Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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U.N. meeting on banning nuclear weapons

Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in his mother's womb, delivers a speech at the third meeting of the state parties to the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 12 Kyodo - Jiro Hamasumi (far L), who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo)

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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

Jiro Hamasumi (far L), who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

Jiro Hamasumi, who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Israeli researchers grow human embryo models from stem cells to study human embryonic development

STORY: Israeli researchers grow human embryo models from stem cells to study human embryonic development DATELINE: Sept. 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:45 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of researchers working at a lab of the Weizmann Institute of Science STORYLINE: Stem cell researchers created artificial models of human embryos and successfully grew them outside the womb up to day 14, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel said in a statement on Wednesday. In a new study published in the journal Science, the researchers created artificial stem cell embryo models that accurately mimic all the essential features and components of this developmental stage, including the placenta, yolk sac, chorionic sac, and assorted external tissues essential for facilitating dynamic and healthy growth. Due to their genuine complexity, the human embryo models created by the WIS team could offer an unprecedented opportunity to gain fresh insights into the beginnings of embryos, acco

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ISRAEL-RECHOVOT-STEM CELL-HUMAN EMBRYO-ARTIFICIAL MODEL

(230908) -- JERUSALEM, Sept. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher works at a biological sciences lab at Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in the Israeli city of Rechovot on Sept. 7, 2023. Stem cell researchers created artificial models of human embryos and successfully grew them outside the womb up to day 14, WIS in central Israel said in a statement on Wednesday. In a new study published in the journal "Science," the researchers created artificial stem cell embryo models that accurately mimic all the essential features and components of this developmental stage, including the placenta, yolk sac, chorionic sac, and assorted external tissues essential for facilitating dynamic and healthy growth. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)

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ISRAEL-RECHOVOT-STEM CELL-HUMAN EMBRYO-ARTIFICIAL MODEL

(230908) -- JERUSALEM, Sept. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher works at a biological sciences lab at Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in the Israeli city of Rechovot on Sept. 7, 2023. Stem cell researchers created artificial models of human embryos and successfully grew them outside the womb up to day 14, WIS in central Israel said in a statement on Wednesday. In a new study published in the journal "Science," the researchers created artificial stem cell embryo models that accurately mimic all the essential features and components of this developmental stage, including the placenta, yolk sac, chorionic sac, and assorted external tissues essential for facilitating dynamic and healthy growth. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)

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ISRAEL-RECHOVOT-STEM CELL-HUMAN EMBRYO-ARTIFICIAL MODEL

(230908) -- JERUSALEM, Sept. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher works at a biological sciences lab at Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in the Israeli city of Rechovot on Sept. 7, 2023. Stem cell researchers created artificial models of human embryos and successfully grew them outside the womb up to day 14, WIS in central Israel said in a statement on Wednesday. In a new study published in the journal "Science," the researchers created artificial stem cell embryo models that accurately mimic all the essential features and components of this developmental stage, including the placenta, yolk sac, chorionic sac, and assorted external tissues essential for facilitating dynamic and healthy growth. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)

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ISRAEL-RECHOVOT-STEM CELL-HUMAN EMBRYO-ARTIFICIAL MODEL

(230908) -- JERUSALEM, Sept. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A researcher works at a biological sciences lab at Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in the Israeli city of Rechovot on Sept. 7, 2023. Stem cell researchers created artificial models of human embryos and successfully grew them outside the womb up to day 14, WIS in central Israel said in a statement on Wednesday. In a new study published in the journal "Science," the researchers created artificial stem cell embryo models that accurately mimic all the essential features and components of this developmental stage, including the placenta, yolk sac, chorionic sac, and assorted external tissues essential for facilitating dynamic and healthy growth. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)

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Lab-Grown Human Embryos Offer New Research Hope

Handout photo shows a stem-cell derived human embryo model showing blue cells (embryo), yellow cells (yolk sac) and pink cells (placenta). Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab. The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives. The researchers, led by Palestinian scientist Jacob Hanna at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, harnessed the power of embryonic stem cells, which can become any kind of cell. They produced embryo models up to 14 days old, which is the legal limit for human embryo lab research in many countries, and the point at which organs like the brain begin to develop. The researchers say their work differs from those of other teams because it uses chemic

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Lab-Grown Human Embryos Offer New Research Hope

Handout photo shows a stem-cell derived human embryo model showing blue cells (embryo), yellow cells (yolk sac) and pink cells (placenta). Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab. The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives. The researchers, led by Palestinian scientist Jacob Hanna at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, harnessed the power of embryonic stem cells, which can become any kind of cell. They produced embryo models up to 14 days old, which is the legal limit for human embryo lab research in many countries, and the point at which organs like the brain begin to develop. The researchers say their work differs from those of other teams because it uses chemic

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Woman safely gives birth after doctor holds baby for 43 mins in womb

STORY: Woman safely gives birth after doctor holds baby for 43 mins in womb DATELINE: April 12, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:29 LOCATION: LIUZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a doctor holding up a baby in a pregnant woman's womb STORYLINE: Miracle of life: a doctor held up a baby in a pregnant woman's womb for 43 minutes before she gave birth to healthy twins. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Liuzhou, China. (XHTV)

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3-D printers create mementos

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 8, 2013 shows a real-size 3-D model of the face of a fetus inside the womb offered by Fasotec Co. based on ultrasound scans in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture.

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Actress Hara speaks about womb cancer

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Chiaki Hara reveals her marriage and years-long fight against womb cancer during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2010. She revealed that the cancer forced her to have the whole organ removed.

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Mother of boy born by surrogacy calls it 'dream come true'

TOKYO, Japan - A 27-year-old woman (L), whose name is being withheld, and her 53-year-old mother who gave birth to a boy for her daughter, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. In September last year, a fertile egg of the daughter, who had a tumor in her womb removed when she was 16 months old, was implanted into her mother and the boy was born in May.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - A nurse at the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, holds a surrogate-born baby boy at the clinic on Feb. 29. A woman in her 50s gave birth to the boy, who is her grandson, through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Hiroshima A-bomb museum head Hataguchi to retire

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Minoru Hataguchi (file photo), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, will leave the museum April 1, the Hiroshima prefectural government said March 29. When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II, Hataguchi was exposed to radiation in his mother's womb.

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9 Filipino children sue to acquire Japanese nationality

TOKYO, Japan - Rossana (L) and her 7-year-old daughter Masami (R) gives a press conference in Tokyo on April, after Masami and eight other Filipino children who were born in Japan to Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers filed a class lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court to obtain Japanese nationality. Rossana said she cannot understand the rationale behind giving Filipino nationality to Masami while Masami's 3-year-old sister, who was recognized by the father while she was in the womb, can have Japanese nationality.

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9 Filipino children sue to acquire Japanese nationality

TOKYO, Japan - Rossana (L) and her 7-year-old daughter Masami (R) gives a press conference in Tokyo on April, after Masami and eight other Filipino children who were born in Japan to Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers filed a class lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court to obtain Japanese nationality. Rossana said she cannot understand the rationale behind giving Filipino nationality to Masami while Masami's 3-year-old sister, who was recognized by the father while she was in the womb, can have Japanese nationality. (Kyodo)

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Womb (2009)

Matt Smith & Eva Green Characters: Thomas, Rebecca Film: Womb (2009) Director: Benedek Fliegauf 01 July 2009 Date: 01 July 2009

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Buddha figurines labeled as important cultural assets on display

A visitor views one of three tiny Buddha statues with a magnifier shown at a special exhibition at the Hannya-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, on Nov. 3, 2015. Designated as important cultural properties, the three mini statues are called "Three Holy Buddha Statues in the Womb." ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima A-bomb museum head Hataguchi to retire

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Minoru Hataguchi (file photo), head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, will leave the museum April 1, the Hiroshima prefectural government said March 29. When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II, Hataguchi was exposed to radiation in his mother's womb. (Kyodo)

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb. (Kyodo)

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Actress Hara speaks about womb cancer

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Chiaki Hara reveals her marriage and years-long fight against womb cancer during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2010. She revealed that the cancer forced her to have the whole organ removed. (Kyodo)

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Victim highlights suffering in event on mercury pollution treaty

Shinobu Sakamoto (2nd from R), a 61-year-old victim of Minamata mercury poisoning, speaks at an event in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 28, 2017, on the sidelines of the first conference of signatory states to an international treaty to prevent mercury pollution. Sakamoto from the southwestern Japan city of Minamata was exposed to the toxic chemical while in the womb after her mother ate seafood contaminated with methyl mercury. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Victim highlights suffering in event on mercury pollution treaty

Shinobu Sakamoto, a 61-year-old victim of Minamata mercury poisoning, speaks at an event in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 28, 2017, on the sidelines of the first conference of signatory states to an international treaty to prevent mercury pollution. Sakamoto from the southwestern Japan city of Minamata was exposed to the toxic chemical while in the womb after her mother ate seafood contaminated with methyl mercury. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Victim highlights suffering in event on mercury pollution treaty

Shinobu Sakamoto, a 61-year-old victim of Minamata mercury poisoning, speaks at an event in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 28, 2017, on the sidelines of the first conference of signatory states to an international treaty to prevent mercury pollution. Sakamoto from the southwestern Japan city of Minamata was exposed to the toxic chemical while in the womb after her mother ate seafood contaminated with methyl mercury. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Int'l treaty to prevent mercury pollution enters into force

Shinobu Sakamoto (C), a Minamata disease patient who suffered mercury poisoning while in the womb, speaks to reporters in the southwestern Japan city of Minamata on Aug. 16, 2017, after an international treaty to protect human health and the environment from mercury pollution entered into force. Sakamoto will attend the first conference of signatory states in Geneva in September to speak about her life. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Int'l treaty to prevent mercury pollution enters into force

Shinobu Sakamoto, a Minamata disease patient who suffered mercury poisoning while in the womb, speaks to reporters in the southwestern Japan city of Minamata on Aug. 16, 2017, after an international treaty to protect human health and the environment from mercury pollution entered into force. Sakamoto will attend the first conference of signatory states in Geneva in September to speak about her life. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mother of boy born by surrogacy calls it 'dream come true'

TOKYO, Japan - A 27-year-old woman (L), whose name is being withheld, and her 53-year-old mother who gave birth to a boy for her daughter, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. In September last year, a fertile egg of the daughter, who had a tumor in her womb removed when she was 16 months old, was implanted into her mother and the boy was born in May. (Kyodo)