Scientists discover what makes human embryo attach to uterus. A UCSF-led research team has identified the first molecular step that allows a week-old human embryo to attach to the uterus. The finding is expected to provide a new tool to diagnose and treat infertility and early pregnancy loss, the scientists report. The researchers found convincing evidence that a molecular sticking process stops the embryoâs journey along the uterine wall and starts attaching it to the wallâthe first stage of implantation. Failure of the embryo to implant causes about three-fourths of lost pregnancies.
In mathematics, a function is a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related to exactly one output. An example is the function that relates each real number x to its square x 2.
In mathematics, and particularly in functional analysis and the calculus of variations, a functional is a function from a vector space into its underlying scalar field, or a set of functions of the real numbers.