Tag: embryonic

Stem cells are a biological wonder. They can repair, restore, replace, and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans these ...

An international study led by the medical Faculty of the University of Bonn has identified a gene that plays an ...

Unlike humans, turtles, lizards and other reptiles – such as crocodiles – do not have sex chromosomes. Their sex is ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental health scientist has received a $2.44 million, five-year grant renewal from the National Institutes ...

Assisted reproductive technology, known as ART, is the umbrella term to describe fertility treatments that involve eggs and embryos. Many ...

Chromosomes undergo precise structural changes at a molecular level during the different phases of cell division. These changes occur at ...

Half of childhood cancers arise during the development of the human embryo, which greatly complicates research into these diseases. The ...

Ikoma, Japan—DNA methylation is a major epigenetic modification that is crucial for mammalian development. For instance, DNA methylation is central ...

Alternative splicing is a fundamental biological process that allows cells to make many different types of mRNAs and proteins from ...

Smoking by mothers during the period immediately before and after conception is linked to a delay in embryonic development, smaller ...

Researchers of the University of Barcelona and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) have shown in a ...

HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2021) – A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the ...