Sentences with phrase «studying animal embryos»

The trouble is that most of the «recipes» for these chemical «cocktails» were derived from studying animal embryos.

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But overall, the resulting toxicity of the wastewater due to its silver content was negligible to zebrafish embryos — a model animal used in toxicity studies.

But his lab's animal studies have revealed that asymmetry in an immature egg is important to the development of an embryo.

A new study reveals that this process may have evolved long ago, as it shows that embryos from an ancient spider develop just like those of vertebrate animals.

He still believes the spheres he studied in 1993 are the embryos of early animals and argues that the peanut - shaped fossils represent a different, unrelated organism.

This is why studies carried out on animal models can help us to understand the development of the human embryo.

Although the animals died soon after birth, neurons from their embryos could be studied.

Rieger used zebrafish larvae to model peripheral neuropathy because the embryos develop rapidly and because the larval fish are translucent, making them ideal for studying the progression of nerve degeneration in live animals.

If approved after a 30 - day comment period, the new policy would allow the National Institutes of Health to fund researchers who want to put stem cells in early - stage animal embryos to study disease, possible therapies and organ transplants.

Homeotic, or Hox genes specify the identity of segments along the embryo's body axis and regulate the formation of major structures in every animal studied.

This is consistent with a recent animal study [9] but contradictory to a previous report showing FSHR and LHR mRNA expression in mouse oocytes and pre-implantation embryos [10].

In this study, the team delved deep into the nucleus of cells belonging to mouse and zebrafish embryos — two important animal models of embryonic development — in order to determine how the Dll4 gene is turned on.