As different as they may seem, humans and cats have similar ailments, but in terms of health care, veterinary regenerative ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have succeeded in generating high-quality feline embryonic stem cells using sperm ...

The fusion of sperm and egg gametes during human fertilization establishes a diploid zygote and initiates a series of cell divisions that result in a multicellular embryo. The blastocyst stage is ...

Osaka Metropolitan University Professor Shingo Hatoya led a Graduate School of Veterinary Science team in pioneering the generation of feline embryonic stem cells using lab-grown blastocysts.

Three and a half days after division begins (in mouse embryos), the proliferating cells form a structure called a blastocyst. It is 100 to 150 micrometers wide, or roughly the same size as the egg ...

Finally, there are ES cells, derived from the inner cell mass of blastocyst-stage embryos. These pluripotent cells are the most ubiquitous of all. Once removed from the blastocyst they lack the ...

Mayo Clinic's Precision Mouse Engineering Core in Minnesota makes embryonic stem (ES) cell-based gene-targeted mice available to researchers.

As division continues, some cells divide into the growing mass, distinguishing cells that form the embryo (epiblast) from those that form the placenta (trophectoderm). Further cell divisions lead to ...

Stem cells in the early embryo The embryonic stem cells, that develop into the new individual, reside in the so-called inner cell mass in a few-days old embryo, called a blastocyst. During the last 25 ...

Asingle type of mouse stem cell can generate a structure in culture capable of self-organizing to generate both embryonic cells and those that are the precursor to ... The authors have generated ...