The work is the first to report on the key role of the TLK2 gene in mouse embryo development. The study solidifies an important role for both TLK1 and TLK2 in genome stability. A massive genomics ...

The first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, ...

I am not the first person who has considered composing poetry to the placenta. One writer begins: “Oh Lady Placenta! What a life you lived in magenta.” Another almost coos to the “constant companion, ...

HONOLULU — The risk for placenta accreta is 3 times higher in pregnancies achieved with in vitro fertilization using frozen embryo transfer than in those using fresh embryos, according to a new study.

The effect of genetic changes on the placenta has not been systematically studied to date. Of 103 gene mutations that lead to the death of a developing fetus in mice, 68% caused defects in the ...

Researchers have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early development, suggesting this may have evolved to help form a placenta. Researchers at the Francis Crick ...

A new study solidifies an important role for both TLK1 and TLK2 in genome stability. This work is also the first to report on the key role of the TLK2 gene in mouse embryo development. The placenta, a ...

A calf was born from an embryo lacking cells which form a large part of the placenta, providing new insight into the regenerative capacity of mammalian embryos. Mammalian development starts from a ...

Forkhead box O1 (FoxO1), a member of the Forkhead box-containing O family of transcription factors, is a key regulator of numerous genes that govern a wide array of cellular functions, including ...

Oliver Griffith receives funding from Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone ...