Sister-to-sister oocyte donation: couples’ experiences with regard to genetic ties

Objective: This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the experiences of genetic ties in intrafamily oocyte donation families. Background: Previous research has shown that most mothers have a good and stable relationship with their donor. Little is known about the meaning of the difference in genetic ties for parents who conceived through sister-to-sister oocyte donation. Methods: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was performed and focused on both individual experiences and couple experiences with regard to genetic ties. Ten participants were recruited via an infertility clinic and took part in semistructured couple interviews. Results: Our analysis revealed that the donation was seen as a way to equal genetic parenthood. Participants struggled with this prevailing ideal of genetic parenthood and questioned the legitimacy of their motherhood. Several dynamics were identified when couples tried to deal with the imbalance in genetic ties: they acknowledged each other, convinced one another, or pushed away the difference in genetic ties. Couples also managed the presence of a genetic tie with the donor by negotiating the closeness in their family relationships. Conclusion: The lack of a full genetic tie remained a meaningful absence for some mothers and the way couples dealt with this varied. We plead that the option of post-donation care should be offered to support couples with the complexities they try to deal with

Cis-regulatory basis of sister cell type divergence in the vertebrate retina

Multicellular organisms evolved via repeated functional divergence of transcriptionally related sister cell types, but the mechanisms underlying sister cell type divergence are not well understood. Here, we study a canonical pair of sister cell types, retinal photoreceptors and bipolar cells, to identify the ke

Correspondence; 2009-10-01; Sister to Sister Conference

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The Bravest Woman I Know

On Friday, April 20, 2018, Gettysburg College students organized a campus-wide walkout to protest all forms of gun violence as part of Gettysburg College’s first annual Peace and Justice Week. Over the next several days, SURGE published the poems and personal testimonies of the student speakers who participated in the event. Just imagine witnessing your best friend’s boyfriend beating her, beating their children. What would you do? My sister is the bravest woman I know. She came in between the blows to her best friend’s face and his fists. My sister is scared of nothing and of no one, which is admirable, but also a curse. He threatened my sister because in some twisted way she emsaculated him but she didn’t back down. Her best friend stayed with him, and my sister did not stop defending her. [excerpt

The cohesin ring concatenates sister DNA molecules

Sister chromatid cohesion, which is essential for mitosis, is mediated by a multi-subunit protein complex called cohesin whose Scc1, Smc1, and Smc3 subunits form a tripartite ring structure. It has been proposed that cohesin holds sister DNAs together by trapping them inside its ring. To test this, we used site-specific cross-linking to create chemical connections at the three interfaces between the ring’s three constituent polypeptides, thereby creating covalently closed cohesin rings. As predicted by the ring entrapment model, this procedure produces dimeric DNA/cohesin structures that are resistant to protein denaturation. We conclude that cohesin rings concatenate individual sister minichromosome DNAs

Letter to Sister

Letter from an unidentified woman (surnamed Hutchins) in Egypt, Mississippi, to her sister. Note From Mrs. Williams\u27 family.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-williams-papers/1154/thumbnail.jp

Constructing and enacting kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families : a multi-family member interview study

Although intra-familial egg donation has been practiced for more than 15 years in several countries, little is known about family relationships in this family type. Framed within the new kinship studies, this article focuses on the experiential dimension of kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families: how is kinship unpacked' and reconstructed' in this specific family constellation? Qualitative data analysis of interviews with receiving parents, their donating sisters and the donor children revealed six themes: (1) being connected as an extended family; (2)disambiguating motherhood; (3) giving and receiving as structuring processes; (4) acknowledging and managing the special' link between donor and child; (5)making sense of the union between father and donor; and (6) kinship constructions being challenged. This study showed the complex and continuous balancing of meanings related to the mother-child dyad, the donor-child dyad and the donor-father dyad. What stood out was the complexity of, on the one hand cherishing the genetic link with the child allowed by the sisters' egg donation, while, on the other, managing the meanings related to this link, by, for instance, acknowledging, downsizing, symbolising, and differentiating it from the mother-child bond. (A Virtual Abstract of this paper can be accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_979cmCmR9rLrKuD7z0ycA)

Penerapan Prinsip Public Good Governance Dalam Hubungan Internasional Melalui Perjanjian Sister City

This research discusses on the implementation of public good governance principle in International relations through the Sister City Agreement with Bandung as the example. The sister city program BandungBraunschweig is regarded as an example for other cities in Indonesia, meanwhile the sister city program of Bandung-Fort Worth is regarded as qualified to recommence the youth exchange since last year. This research of a literary nature. The research concludes that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as a form of sister city cooperation is in line with International law, and the implementation of public good governance principle is done through the partnership with regional governments of other States (sister city). Several problems that exists in the sister city program is the maintenance of documents, and the supporting resources to ease communication in sister city cooperation.IntisariPenelitian ini membahas penerapan prinsip public good governance dalam Hubungan Internasional melalui perjanjian sister city dengan mengambil contoh Kota Bandung. Program sister cityBandung-Braunschweig dinilai telah menjadi contoh bagi kota-kota lain di Indonesia, sedangkan program sister city Bandung Fort Worth dinilai mampu mengaktifkan kembali pertukaran pemuda sejak tahunlalu. Jenis Penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian kepustakaan. Kesimpulan yang didapatkan adalah Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) sebagai bentuk kerjasama sister city telah sesuai dengan hukum Internasional, penerapan prinsip public good governance dilakukan melalui pembentukan hubungan kemitraan dengan pemerintah daerah di negara lain (sister city). Beberapa hambatan dan problematika yang ada dalam sister city adalah penempatan dan Pemeliharaan dokumen serta sarana prasarana penunjang guna mempermudah komunikasi Dalam hubungan kerjasama sister city