How-To Guide for Creating Mouse-Human Chimeric Embryos
The research enables far more accurate models of human development and disease and could help solve the shortage of organs for transplant. A year after…
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Researchers Create a Molecular Map of Every Cell in a Developing Animal Embryo
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine provide a molecular ‘atlas’ of animal development—a molecular…
Yale Research Reveals Interesting Results for Frozen vs. Fresh Embryos for IVF
Many women struggling to have a baby turn to in-vitro fertilization to improve their chances, and then face further uncertainty and anxiety when confronted with…
Study Shows Root of Birth Defects Grounded in Early Embryonic Development
In a newly published study, Yale researchers detail a genetic mutation associated with congenital heart disease that disrupts a key signaling mechanism and leads to…
Researchers Identify Molecular Factors that Push the Domino of Life into Motion
In a newly published study, Yale University geneticists report that three factors — Nanog, Pou5f1 (or Oct4) and SoxB1 — are indeed needed to push…
Cells Battle to the Death to Become Part of the Organism
New research from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares reveals that cells in the early embryo battle each other to death to become part of…
Mitochondrial Transfer Technology Could Reduce Risk of Childhood Disease
New technology that would allow genetic material to shuffle between unfertilized eggs is ready to make healthier babies. This technique would allow parents to minimize…
Researchers Track Development of T-cells in Living Zebrafish Embryos
For the first time ever, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg have observed the maturation of immune cells in…