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.

This raises the distant possibility of doing the same for people--although experts caution that very few mouse embryos were born alive and no one knows whether the same technique would work in ...

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

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 ...

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

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.