In the long term, the guinea pig preimplantation embryo model might provide extremely useful information about the best conditions for the development of healthy embryos and fetuses, Petropoulos ...

Therefore, animal models are often used to understand the biological processes that govern embryo development before it implants in the uterus. In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet ...

"We want to know how cells organize themselves into an embryo-like model, and what could go wrong when there are pathological conditions that prevent an animal from successfully developing." ...

To further investigate the cell contribution to the ICM, the researchers labeled ... in a human embryo at those early stages,” said Platcha. However, he noted that the inherent variability in human ...