As immature egg cells, called oocytes get older, they begin having problems with cell division. This can result in aneuploidy ...

The team of Professor Christof Niehrs at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, has discovered that a ...

Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human embryos to study development, fertility and therapies.

Finally, the scientists also observed 5fC chromocenters in mouse embryos during zygotic gene activation. This suggested that ...

The researchers fertilized the eggs and transferred them into surrogate mice. Embryos that came from rejuvenated oocytes were ...

A woman's ovaries are like a factory where eggs grow and produce hormones that regulate everything from menstruation and ...

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

UC Riverside-led mouse study finds fathers on unhealthy diets can cause cardiovascular disease in their daughters ...

When they become fathers, men who have an unhealthy, high-cholesterol diet can cause increased risk of cardiovascular disease ...

Mice express full-length protein ZBP1-L as well as an alternatively-spliced shorter isoform (ZBP1-S) containing only its two ...

The study found that fathers on a poor high cholesterol diet can cause cardiovascular disease in their daughters.

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