Human embryo compaction, an essential step in the first days of an embryo's development, is driven by the contractility of its cells. This is the finding of a team of scientists from CNRS ...

A study reveals that guinea pigs can serve as a robust model for understanding human pre-implantation development. Their ...

The guinea pig has long been used for studies in developmental biology and is very similar to humans in terms of general ...

Being fruitful, they multiply into a ball of many cells, a shimmering sphere of human ... of a day dissecting a pregnant mouse, removing its uterus, and prying loose a string of embryos that ...

To answer this question, Hanna and his team set out to develop an ex utero embryo model. The team differentiated the human naïve ESC into four subpopulations ... they captured an image eight days ...

After three long essays in the New York Times’s “Embryo Question,” the series ends with a stunning confession of complete indecision about what the human embryo is — aside from the ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.