During normal embryo development, X inactivation in females takes place at a very early stage.
Not exact matches
For decades, biologists assumed that these retrotransposons serve no purpose
during normal development, but He's findings suggest they may be closely tied to the decision - making of early
embryos.
However,
during normal fertilization, when an egg and a sperm fuse, the sperm's mitochondria are destroyed, as the
embryo inherits only its mother's mitochondria.
«The technology remains at an early stage, and much more work is needed to make sure that the technique is safe and optimized before we ascertain whether these eggs remain
normal during the process, and can be fertilized to form
embryos that could lead to healthy babies,» says Ali Abbara, an endocrinologist from Imperial College London who didn't work on this new study.