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 ...

He led a study on the development of mouse embryos in space – something that ... became the first vertebrates to spend the first few days of life in space. There, they swam erratically and ...

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 ...

Scientists have focused on the mouse as a model system ... Unlike many cells in an embryo, PGCs do not mature at the site of their inception. Instead, around day 7.5 of embryonic development ...

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

During the oocyte-to-embryo transition (OET), the length of the mRNA poly(A ... now designated the Martre gene family. By ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and LMU reveal how transposable elements – ancient viral DNA remnants – reactivate during ...