Understanding how cells differentiate during early embryonic development is crucial for advancing regenerative medicine and developmental biology. Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) have been invaluable ...

A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues, the ...

The creation of cellular structures similar to blastocysts has enabled KAUST scientists to build an in vitro model that mimics the earliest moments of human embryogenesis. A blastocyst is the first ...

Altering a single gene in human embryonic cells has revealed that NANOG plays a key role in early embryo development, ...

After fertilization, an embryo undergoes rapid rounds of cell division to form the blastocyst. To date, the critical events surrounding this peri-implantation stage have primarily been studied in ...

Scientists have shed light on an important stage of early embryonic development that has never been fully mapped out in humans before. Due to more readily available samples, studies so far have ...

The lineage cell shape quantification, analysis, and visualization from 3DCSQ. Figure 1 illustrates the lineage cell morphology map and shape quantification way, as well as 3DCSQ’s visualization ...

Embryonic development, also known as embryogenesis, is a cornerstone in understanding the origins of life. But studying this marvel of intricate and layered biological processes in people faces ...

Microspores are male gametophytic plant cells evolutionarily programmed to develop into pollen grains. However, under specific circumstances, microspores initiate an alternative developmental pathway ...