Abstract: Morphological assessment of blastocyst quality is one of the most significant challenges in the IVF process because the current assessment is based on evaluation by an embryologist; thus, it ...

A recent study published in Engineering has unveiled a novel approach to generating functional organoids from human adult adipose tissue. This method, which bypasses traditional stem cell isolation ...

Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors (pPNETs) are small embryonic carcinomas that develop in the soft tissue and bone, away from the central nervous system (CNS) and sympathetic nervous system ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — plays a vital, overlooked role in the first steps of life. Each of us starts ...

Researchers have identified Nr1h2, a critical transcription factor essential for early embryo development. Their findings enhance our understanding of gene regulation during blastoid formation and ...

The epithelium is a type of tissue that covers many different surfaces on the inside and the outside of your body. Epithelial cells are packed tightly together and serve as a barrier between the ...

An unexpectedly versatile and regenerative stem cell in early embryos may be key to creating new effective fertility treatments, suggests a new study in mice from the University of Copenhagen. It ...

The endodermal germ layer is one of the three germ layers formed in the earliest stages of embryonic development. It’s the innermost layer that develops during gastrulation. This layer gives rise to ...

From the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (J.C.K., V.F.); the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones ...

Mouse embryos can make it to an early stage of development in space. In an experiment conducted in 2021, a few hundred frozen two-cell embryos from mice thawed and grew over four days on the ...

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