Beginning with the establishment of body patterns, we are introduced to the mouse embryo from fertilization ... along with their phenotypic relevance to human development. This serves to remind ...

The laboratory mouse is widely considered ... mouse mutants and certain human diseases. Alternative methods for mutagenesis rely on the manipulation of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells.

Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, professor of mammalian development ... natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days "This period of human life is so mysterious ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

They deactivated the Tgfbr1 gene in mouse embryos during mid-stage development to investigate its effects on the development of the spinal cord. The Tgfbr1 gene provides instructions for making a ...

By comparing these findings with existing data from mouse and monkey embryos ... organized in a pattern that mimicked early human embryonic development, indicating that the notochord successfully ...

Protein modifications are key to cell survival because they ensure they do what they are supposed to do in a healthy system.

To answer this question, Hanna and his team set out to develop an ex utero embryo model. The team differentiated the human naïve ESC into four subpopulations and cultured them at specific ratios to ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are ...

Old viral DNA, once thought to be gone forever, is reactivated in mammalian embryos, with each species showing unique ...

Now, using similar methods as the mouse-rat hybrid, scientists have produced the first human-pig hybrid embryo, which is more difficult than you might think. Getting cells from one species to ...