Sentences with phrase «very 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.

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During normal embryo development, X inactivation in females takes place at a very early stage.

The ability to keep human embryos developing in the lab for almost 2 weeks — achieved for the first time this year — should provide new insights into very early human development, and generate debate on whether ethical limits on studying embryos in culture should be extended.

Very soon after fertilization, the control of embryonic development shifts from pre-existing maternal gene products to the products of genes encoded by the early embryo (or zygote).

Hamburger grafted limb buds onto chick embryos at very early stages of development and observed how the modified peripheral field was innervated by sensory and sympathetic fibers.

A second method involves introducing the transgenic DNA into embryonic stem cells (ES cells) derived from a mouse embryo at the very early stages of development.

Kathy Niakan and colleagues are providing new understanding of the genes responsible for a crucial change when groups of cells in the very early embryo first become organised and set on different paths of development.

In answer to the question of whether hybrid embryos created by CNR might be likely to develop if placed into a woman, the Royal Society notes that it is impossible to answer this question without carrying out an illegal experiment, but that experience to date with other inter-specific hybrid embryos suggests that development beyond the very earliest stages of gestation would be unlikely.