Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

Their approaches vary, but on one point, all seem to agree: How humanity handles its control over the mysteries of embryo development will say a lot about who we are and what we're becoming.

Understanding of how cells control their identity, and how they assemble into tissues with normal organization and function during embryonic development provides the essential blueprint for gaining ...

In females, OGT escapes XCI in the extra-embryonic tissues that give rise ... may act as a mediator linking external cues to control development and growth, as a form of environmental adaptation." ...

These elements provide a way to control thousands of genes simultaneously ... The findings not only deepen our understanding of early embryo development but also highlight the potential of ...

they model embryonic development’s pre-implantation period, up to seven days post fertilization. While stem cell-based embryo models greatly extend the ability to study this period of development, ...

The Reproductive Endocrinology Laboratory is interested in understanding how hormones from the brain and pituitary control puberty ... Etiology of infertility in humans. Embryonic development of the ...

The findings help elucidate what happens during the earliest periods in development. “I was always interested in how cells decide their fate,” Zernicka-Goetz said. In the mouse developing embryo, she ...

Seminal findings made in the chick include the discovery of the neural crest, the cellular movements of gastrulation, and the genetic control ... the avian embryo to study development of the ...