We know a lot about the human brain, but very little about how it is formed. In particular, the stages from the second to the seventh week of embryonic development have so far been virtually ...

Those three embryonic stem cells had shown the fundamentals of successful development by starting to form a brain, heart and nutritional yolk sac but didn’t survive beyond 8½ days — just ...

Additionally, the results could be used to guide repair and development of synthetic human organs for transplantation. "Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart ...

However, scientists have successfully cultured stem cells to produce a pea-sized blob that mimics early brain development in a human embryo. In a paper that has just been published online by ...

² Early embryonic brain development starts with the formation of the neural plate, a cumulus of nerve cells in the dorsal part of the embryo, which later forms the neural tube, eventually turning ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

They use CRISPR-based engineering methods to prompt stem cells to organize into “programmable” embryo-like structures, also known as embryoids, which can be used to study the role of certain genes in ...

Dr Lardelli is examining the embryo of zebrafish (Danio rerio) to identify genes expressed during the earliest stages of the brain's development. Zebrafish are popular with scientists because of ...

The embryo has a brain, a beating heart ... Ms Zernicka-Goetz is a professor in Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology in Cambridge's Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.