“I was always interested in how cells decide their fate,” Zernicka-Goetz said. In the mouse developing embryo, she previously demonstrated a bias at the two-cell stage: one cell contributed more to ...

Part of the cells in the embryo become the new individual whereas the other cells produce the placenta and other tissues outside of the fetus. The cells in the early embryo, which give rise to the new ...

A study led by NYU Langone Health discovered that oxytocin delays embryo development in stressed mice, providing insights ...

Writing in this month’s edition of the journal Placenta, they show how glucose and other nutrients are delivered in the early stages of pregnancy before the foetus is large and developed enough to ...

Because the placenta is derived from the extraembryonic portion of the early embryo, the villus cells in the placenta have the same genetic composition as the cells in the fetus's tissues ...

shows that the effects of alcohol exposure on an embryo prior to implantation in the uterus can be detected in the late-gestation placenta. Using a mouse model well suited for this type of ...

but not extra-embryonic tissues such as the placenta. Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells are pluripotent stem cells. Endochondral ossification is hard to recapitulate with ...