.... Summary: The serine-threonine kinase GSK3 coordinates mitochondrial activity and nucleotide metabolism in quiescent oocytes. Drosophila Oocyte Embryo Metabolism Mitochondria National Institutes of Health http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002 National Institute on Aging...

... Review highlights the recent progress in modeling the human placenta in vitro , their advantages and limitations, as well as the challenges that remain this field. Development Embryo Placenta Pregnancy Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research; University of Cambridge...

...Stanley E. Strawbridge; Agata Kurowski; Elena Corujo-Simon; Alastair N. Fletcher; Jennifer Nichols; Alexander G. Fletcher ABSTRACT A crucial aspect of embryology is relating the position of individual cells to the broader geometry of the embryo. A classic example of this is the first cell-fate...

...S. M. Rolfe; S. M. Whikehart; A. M. Maga ABSTRACT The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) has generated a large repository of three-dimensional (3D) imaging data from mouse embryos, providing a rich resource for investigating phenotype/genotype interactions. While the data is freely...

... expansion, expected pluripotency gene expression and committed differentiation plasticity. Core similarities between biPSCs and stem cells of the 16-cell-stage bovine embryo indicated a stable ground state of pluripotency; this allowed us to reliably gain predictive understanding of signaling in bovine...

... recycled by ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Its role in early embryo development has not been studied. Using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool, the objective of this study was to determine if UBA52 protein is required for mammalian embryogenesis. Matured metaphase II porcine oocytes were injected...

... of the genes deregulated in Baf60c null embryos are targets of the MEF2/SRF co-factor Myocardin (MYOCD). In a yeast two-hybrid screen, we identified MYOCD as a BAF60c interacting factor; we showed that BAF60c and MYOCD directly and functionally interact. We conclude that Baf60c is essential for coordinating...

... embryos was rescued by co-expressing a membrane-bound form of full-length Slit lacking the cleavage site and knocked into the slit locus. The identification of a novel protease component essential for Slit processing may represent an additional regulatory step in the Slit signaling pathway. * Author...

... before hatching of the juvenile animal. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of this process are not fully understood. Analyses of the phenotype of Drosophila embryos with malformed muscles revealed that they fail to gas-fill their tracheal system. Indeed, we show that major regulators of muscle formation...

...Ana De Melo Bernardo; Kaylee Sprenkels; Gabriela Rodrigues; Toshiaki Noce; Susana M. Chuva De Sousa Lopes Summary During gastrulation, chicken primordial germ cells (PGCs) are present in an extraembryonic region of the embryo from where they migrate towards the genital ridges. This is also observed...