Dr Elena Corujo-Simón is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. Following a BSc in Biotechnology in Spain, Elena moved to the UK to study for a MRes in Regenerative Medicine at the University of Bath. She obtained a PhD in Developmental Biology from the University of Bath and continued to carry out research in early mammalian embryos during her postdoc with Professor Jenny Nichols at the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh, where she remain a visiting researcher. Elena's scientific expertise is on cell specification during pre-implantation development, embryo models and derivation of embryonic stem cells. She is the current translation and research manager of the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering at Imperial College London.
A programmable stem cell model, with the ability to mimic early stages of mammalian development, has been created using an engineering biology technique...
Remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, are involved in regulating the start of gene expression during mammalian embryonic development, a study suggests...
Stem cell models of early preimplantation human embryos have been shown to retain the capacity to pause development, using a mechanism observed in other mammals...
During the first cell divisions of mouse embryos a period of instability has been uncovered, which translates into chromosomal errors...
When human embryos consist of only two cells, the cells are already biased towards contributing to either the placenta or the embryo, scientists suggest...
A new dataset, combining information on cell position and gene expression from an early human embryo, has been made available as a reference for scientists investigating human development...
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