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Mouse embryos grow for days in culture, but the requirements are a bit nuts

Enlarge / A mouse embryo with the nervous system highlighted in blue. (credit: Lawrence Berkeley Lab) Embryos start out as a single cell, and have to go from there to a complicated array of multiple tissues. For organisms like insects or frogs, that process is pretty easy to study, since development takes place in an […]

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How embryos Put the clocks Which time their Evolution

The repeated dark and light pattern you are able to see the side of the embryo is brought on by the existence of somites. (charge: Flickr consumer Lunar Caustic) There is a tiny problem in mathematics that is so evident that many biologists do not wind up thinking about it as a issue. Mice and […]