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Inside the Womb The blactocyste segregates into an inner cell mass and surrounding outer trophoblast cells. The cell which has been dividing for four days has not enlarged but rather continues to compact as the cell divides.

Inside the Womb Spermatozoa, after battling through a difficult obstacle course finally arrives at the vicinity of the ovum, only about 2000 of the original hundreds of million remain.

05/18/02 Rocky Mountain National Park-. Brad Baldwin of Eaton and his 15-month-old son, Ethan, watch elk grazing in a meadow near Moraine Park of Rocky Mountain National Park. Chronic wasting disease, already present in the park’s elk, is a…

Workers stoke the pyre to finish off a week’s worth of elk carcasses hauled to a site northwest of Fort Collins. The elk came from 18 ranches in northeast Colorado’s ‘‘endemic area,’’ where fears of CWD…

Tracie McEwen-Watts with her daughter Rilee, 6. 'My little girls have just been through hell,' says Tracie, whose husband Doug McEwen died in 1999 from Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. Tracie’s husband, Doug McEwen, died in 1999 at the age of 30,…

04/03/02 Hayden, Colorado- Ranchers, outfitters and small business owners, all with a stake in big-game hunting and the health of elk and deer herds, listen in Hayden in April as wildlife officials outline a culling effort carried out near the…

11/12/02 Fort Collins/Livermore- Lab technicians remove tissue from deer and elk heads at the Division of Wildlife's labs in Fort Collins. Technicians process about 500 heads per day at the facility, testing for CWD

01/28/02-Crawford, Nebraska-Biologist Todd Nordeen takes aim on a herd of deer during a a week long expedition to kill as many as 100 mule deer. They will be tested for chronic wasting disease. The biologists used illegal techniques such as…

05/23/02 Fort Collins - Dr. Terry Spraker, a veterinary scientist at Colorado State University, looks through a microscope at a slide showing CWD infected lymphoid tissue from a mule deer. After a staining process, prions show up as red dots in the…

Killer in the Herds- A killer is on the loose. A rogue protein, known as a prion, is ravaging Colorado's deer and elk population. Recognized as Chronic Wasting disease, and similar to mad cow disease, it poses a threat not just to the wildlife…