Sentences with phrase «regulate embryo development»

Later work suggested a more nuanced role for it, Ben - David says, but the overall hypothesis remained that the genes helped regulate embryo development.

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Studying these rare diseases «can open a new way to understand the imprinting phenomenon, to see how, in the beginning of the development of the embryo, the embryo answers to stimuli» that regulate how its genes behave, says Giovanni Battista Ferrero, a pediatrician at the University of Turin in Italy.

«The most intriguing of these genes is FGFRL1, which has a cluster of amino acid substitutions unique to giraffe that are located in the part of the protein that binds fibroblast growth factors — a family of regulators involved in regulating many processes including embryo development,» Cavener said.

The researchers determined that the Sip1 protein is responsible specifically for the development of embryos and that it is regulated via the pH value rather than temperature.

In particular, the research identified several genes regulated by methylation in the egg that are involved in cell adhesion and migration — both vital properties for cells of the developing placenta in establishing connections with maternal tissues to support embryo development.

Lanner is attempting to edit genes in human embryos to learn more about how the genes regulate early embryonic development.