View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. It is allowing people to do biochemistry with mammalian embryos that they couldn’t do otherwise. After a sperm fertilizes an egg, the totipotent ...

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 ...

They show that rather than exclusively providing energy to the cell, glycolysis is able to control, at different stages of early embryonic development, cell fate decisions and the end-state appearance ...