Gradient-inducing proteins crucial for embryo development
Proteins that exist in the junctions between cells have been shown to help create signalling gradients crucial for cell differentiation in human embryo models...
Latin for 'within the glass'. Refers to experiments performed in a controlled environment like a test tube or culture media, rather than inside a living organism or cells.
Proteins that exist in the junctions between cells have been shown to help create signalling gradients crucial for cell differentiation in human embryo models...
Scientists have reportedly created an embryo model from human stem cells with a heartbeat and traces of blood; features that typically appear in an embryo proper during the third or fourth week of pregnancy...
by Hannah Flynn
There is no difference in the live birth rate when embryos are transferred on day five or day three, a multi-centre study in the Netherlands has shown...
A compound found in a common artificial sweetener can cause damage to DNA in human cells...
Singapore does not recognise same-sex couples, so when they have children, typically only one partner is the legal parent. Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin explores how IVG could, in future, allow same-sex couples to have a child with both partners' DNA, and how this could challenge the status quo...
As a draft bill for surrogacy is published in the UK, Mary Wingfield reflects on the situation in Ireland and asks if legislation surrounding fertility treatment will ever be able to keep pace with changing attitudes...
Lab-made model embryos triggered pregnancy responses when placed in the uteruses of female monkeys...
A new study, published in Nature, by world-renowned Stanford neuroscientist Professor Sergiu Pasca involved the transfer of human brain organoids into the brains of rats. Here, Dr Insoo Hyun, director of the Centre for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts, speaks with Professor Pasca about his research...
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