and two-cell embryos for 2 min. Preliminary studies demonstrated that a 2-min exposure (without vitrification) of one-cell embryos to the cryoprotectant solutions severely inhibited development.

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD ...

(2) Micropattern Colonies: To study the spatial organization of human embryos ... a stem cell biologist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology who works with both stem ...

Scientists have long dreamed of plucking those naive cells from a young human embryo and coaxing them to perform, in sterile isolation, the everyday miracle they perform in wombs: transforming ...

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 ...

In a new study published in Developmental Cell, researchers led by Université de Montréal (UdeM) professor Greg FitzHarris show how the early mouse embryo gets rid of the defective or unneeded ...