In a study published in the Journal of Animal Science, 24 gossypol was found to induce reproductive problems in females by disrupting estrous cycles, pregnancy, and
early embryo development in non-ruminant species.
Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by
studying early embryo development.
Those experiments, led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the Francis Crick Institute in London, will inactivate genes involved in
very early embryo development, in hopes of understanding why some pregnancies terminate.
The procedure was pioneered by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University who focuses
on early embryo development and stem cell biology.
Dr. Reinholdt's research focuses on comparative and functional mammalian genomics, reproductive development and stem cell biology.Researches gamete development, which gives rise to eggs and sperm and
supports early embryo development, with a focus on mammalian reproduction and fertility.
She also emphasised the differences between mouse and
human early embryo development, and the importance of remembering this when studying stem cells.
Such embryo research might teach us more about cell differentiation and
early embryo development, it might make possible greater success in bone marrow transplants, and it might help us to treat more successfully degenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries.
It has been a long - standing question in the natural world whether the extra sperm that enter a bird's egg have any role to play in fertilisation or
early embryo development.
«One advantage of assisted reproduction as a model for the study of human fertility is that it allows the examination of factors possibly related to interactions between the embryo and the endometrium independently of other factors related to
early embryo development or ovarian response to stimulation.
Early embryo development is dependent on thyroid hormones provided by the mother.
«After the eggs are inseminated, and
early embryo development to the d5 - 7 blastocyst stage begins, quality can be read as the number of chromosomes in the embryo.»