CRCHUM researcher Sophie Petropoulos and her team reveal for the first time that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of ...

Researchers have discovered that the earliest days of embryo development have a measurable ... highly responsive to signals from the mother's body. Our findings show maternal health and ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells ... skeleton arise from different groups of precursor cells during embryonic development. During ...

Pregnancy loss affects millions, with 10–15% of pregnancies ending in miscarriage. Knowing the causes can help reduce self-blame.

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered that the earliest days of embryo development have a measurable impact ... “The process is highly responsive to signals from the mother’s ...

“Only one of the two cells is truly totipotent, meaning it can give rise to body and placenta ... periods in development. “I was always interested in how cells decide their fate,” Zernicka-Goetz said.

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

The body of work overturns assumptions about the pure dominance of genes during development and helps us understand the factors that contribute to an embryo’s survival, cell death and even cancer.

In a study of early embryonic development in primates ... the zona pellucida; before the embryo implants in the uterus, the young embryo "hatches" from this protective cover.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered that the earliest days of embryo development have a measurable ..

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