Sentences with phrase «directing embryo development»

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There she made her most significant discovery: An embryo has an organizing center that directs the development of a mammal's head.

The technology allowed researchers to chart hierarchies, or cascades, of genes and to track the process by which one gene after another turns on, directing the embryo's development.

In previous work Tufts University developmental biologist Michael Levin found that patterns of electrical potentials in the earliest stages of an embryo's development can direct how an animal's body grows, and that manipulating those potentials can cause a creature to sprout extra limbs, tails or functioning eyes.

In doing so, they discovered that a fundamental genetic pathway (WNT / β - Catenin) plays an essential role in directing development of the corpus / fundus region of the stomach in mouse embryos.

Yet we are dismayed by his disregard for the most basic scientific findings regarding the human embryo, namely, that from the single - cell stage of development onward, the human embryo is a distinct, determinate, self - directing, integrated, human organism — a living member of the human species who, if given a suitable environment, will move along the seamless trajectory of biological development toward maturity.