Sentences with phrase «exposed as embryos»

The research builds on earlier work by the Auke Bay Laboratories, part of NOAA Fisheries» Alaska Fisheries Science Center, which found much reduced survival of pink salmon exposed as embryos to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from crude oil.

Not exact matches

The scientists heated chicken embryos to 40 ° to 41 ° Celsius for an hour and compared them with embryos incubated at a standard laboratory temperature of 37 ° C. Those chicks exposed to a high «fever» developed craniofacial defects, such as a shorter upper beak, and cardiovascular defects.

«Ultimately, our next step will be looking at how interaction between the mother and the embryos can be affected, so if the mother is stressed during pregnancy — such as being exposed to a toxin or being deprived of resources such as food and water — we want to see how that can affect development of the embryos,» says Jennings.

The research coming under fire reported the discovery of a potentially revolutionary process called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), in which exposing adult cells to a stress such as acid or pressure prompts them to behave like cells in early embryos, which can become any cell type in the body.

Using zebrafish as a model system, the researchers exposed the fish embryos to seven different types of TAML activators.

A second line of research is to use skeletal muscle formation in the chick embryo as a model to understand how cells within tissues display complex behaviours while being exposed to an ever - changing cellular environment.

«In fact, abnormal cells with numerical and / or structural anomalies of chromosomes have been observed in as many as 80 - 90 % of human early stage embryos following in vitro fertilization,» says Professor Thierry Voet from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, and the University of Leuven, Belgium, another senior author of this paper, «and CSV tests may expose some degree of these abnormalities.»