A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in the body.

A research team led by Associate Professor Hirofumi Nishizono and graduate student Masaki Kato from the Research Support ...

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Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental ...

That's why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental stress and then re-enter development when conditions improve. This stalling of development is known ...

Integrated screening and CRISPR reveal eleven previously unknown factors essential for early embryo development. They showed that CXCR2 and CTSD are required for preimplantation development.