Researchers have uncovered how egg cells prepare for the creation of life. Their work reveals the secrets of the Balbiani ...

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 ...

During the development of an embryo, this rod-like tissue acts as a kind of crucial scaffold, and helps dictate where cells ...

This meant that early ZGA research had to be carried out on non-human models. Indeed, this latest discovery follows scientists uncovering the genome stage of development in mouse embryonic stem ...

Now - the clever bit. The cells on the inside layer of this very early embryo can make all of the cell types needed in your body. They're called stem cells. The stem cells continue to divide by ...

Pluripotent stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into the three primary germ cell layers of the early embryo and therefore into all cells of the ...

Researchers have uncovered how egg cells prepare for the creation of life. Their work reveals the secrets of the Balbiani body, a remarkable structure ...

They were targeting a gene. You are unlikely to have heard of it, but OCT4 is a superstar in early embryo development. Its complete role is not understood but it acts like an army general issuing ...

Neuronal stem cells produce a variety of nervous system tissue, mostly during early embryonic development but, as we are beginning to learn, later in life as well. During early development the ...

The IACUC questioned how ZINC would handle certain situations: (i) an embryo that hatched early; (ii) an investigator who decided to allow an embryo to develop into an adult; and (iii) an ...