11, Issue. 4, p. 185. The editors present, in a single volume, a valuable reference source for students of mammalian embryology, genetics, and physiology, this book provides a thorough overview of the ...

We all start our lives as symmetric balls of cells. In humans, during the first few weeks after fertilization, embryonic ...

In 1896, in his seminal work "The Cell in Development and Inheritance", the cell biologist Edmund B. Wilson formulated a ...

Vitrification using the cryoloop provides a technique that is successful in oocytes and embryos, is easy to perform, and may translate to other mammalian gametes and embryos, as well as Drosophila ...

The synthetic mouse embryos only lasted for eight days, due to defects - but they reached the point where a brain began to develop. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, professor of mammalian ...

Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent cells isolated from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, the early mammalian embryo that implants into the uterus. Embryonic stem cells self-renew by dividing ...