Sentences with phrase «help develop the embryo»

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An organ called Kupffer's vesicle, which helps specify the left and right sides of the developing fish, is shaped asymmetrically in a wild - type embryo (left), but is more symmetric in the absence of maternally inherited gdf3 (right).

Will it only work in embryos, or can it help the brain develop normally even after birth?

In addition, the culture media in which the embryos are first developed in the laboratory have improved in quality, as have the hormonal medications used to help women produce a sufficient number of high quality eggs at the right time.»

Both the Z chromosome and this X chromosome seem to have a gene called DMRT1, which in birds is likely the sex - determining gene; that is, the gene that helps steer a developing bird embryo toward one gender or the other.

Warmer temperatures in the autumn may help the insect embryos develop faster, leading to live births

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP), led by the University of Adelaide, have successfully developed an advanced new imaging technique, which can help assess the quality of early - stage embryos.

With collaborators in the biology department, Dr. Weiss applied these ultrasensitive techniques to investigate the Hedgehog signaling pathway — a critical mechanism that helps give rise to the spatial patterning in developing embryos, but has also been identified as a key culprit in up to 25 % of cancer deaths.

Studies with Zebrafish embryos help scientists understand how whole organisms develop from the single - celled embryo.

In the study, Setton and Sharma show that a pair of genes, known as Sp6 - 9 and Dll, normally involved in telling a developing insect or arachnid embryo where to grow legs, has been co-opted by a group of arachnids to also help tell the embryo where to build its head.

A new study on chicken embryos may help researchers understand how humans developed their sensitive daylight vision.