The mouse embryos, developed using stem cells, only lasted for eight days. But the research team say it could improve understanding of the earliest stages of organ development - and why some ...

Amadei and Handford Side by side, the natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days The synthetic embryos do not behave in exactly the same way as normal embryos.

Teams across the world are learning about the pregnancy process to solve a number of medical challenges, from premature birth ...

Tomohiro Kono and colleagues from Tokyo University have had a long-standing interest in deciphering the role of imprinting in the developing embryo ... they created a mouse from two females.

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

The team used these newly generated stem cells to help form a living, breathing mouse from a developing embryo, according to published findings in Nature Communications. The discovery was ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are ...

Old viral DNA, once thought to be gone forever, is reactivated in mammalian embryos, with each species showing unique ...

using a device developed by the team that also allowed astronauts to easily handle early mouse embryos. The team thawed and cultured the embryos for four days. Of the embryos, 360 were cultured in ...

New Delhi, DNA from ancient viruses that form a part of the human genome may be contributing in the early development of an embryo in the womb, according to a study. Ancient viral DNA, also called ...