One of the other crucial events documented by the Queensland team's technique was the 'zipping up' of cells along the long open edges of the embryo's neural tube. Like a burrito or wrap ...

"These cells co-develop together, just like they would in an actual embryo, and establish that history of being neighbors," ...

For the first eight weeks, the developing baby is called an embryo. It looks like a tadpole. At about three weeks, the neural tube, which becomes the brain and spinal cord, is forming. At about ...

It also plays an important role in the proper closure of the neural tube—the part of an embryo where the brain and spinal cord develop—and in the normal development of major heart vessels.

As division continues, some cells divide into the growing mass, distinguishing cells that form the embryo (epiblast) from those that form the placenta (trophectoderm). Further cell divisions lead to ...

It also plays an important role in the proper closure of the neural tube—the part of an embryo where the brain and spinal cord develop—and in the normal development of major heart vessels.