Organoids are made to model human organs and are promising for research and therapy, but there are limitations to their ...

4 This area of the endometrium is transformed early on in pregnancy and acts as a fluffy bed in which the embryo grows. As the blastocyst burrows, the trophectoderm begins to differentiate into ...

“I was always interested in how cells decide their fate,” Zernicka-Goetz said. In the mouse developing embryo, she previously demonstrated a bias at the two-cell stage: one cell contributed more to ...

shows that the effects of alcohol exposure on an embryo prior to implantation in the uterus can be detected in the late-gestation placenta. Using a mouse model well suited for this type of ...

Led by researchers at NYU Langone Health, the study explored diapause, in which an embryo temporarily stops growing early in its development before it attaches to the lining of its mother’s uterus, a ...

Writing in this month’s edition of the journal Placenta, they show how glucose and other nutrients are delivered in the early stages of pregnancy before the foetus is large and developed enough to ...

Caption The placenta is essential for embryo development and acts as an interface between the embryo and mother for the exchange of gas, nutrient, and waste products. Mutations that affect cohesin ...

“The placenta is at the frontline of this battle ... “We can see this if we look at pregnancies where the embryo has implanted outside the uterus (an ectopic pregnancy) or on the scar from ...

Part of the cells in the embryo become the new individual whereas the other cells produce the placenta and other tissues outside of the fetus. The cells in the early embryo, which give rise to the new ...