Time-lapse footage reveals cardiac cells in a mouse embryo begin to organise themselves during early development The moment a heart begins to form has been captured in extraordinary time-lapse images ...

Gene-free DNA segments play an important role in the development of the embryo and heart in mice and humans. A study published in "Nature Communications" by the University of Bern (Unibe) shows the ...

The findings shed light on the origins of congenital heart defects and could open new avenues in regenerative medicine and tissue bioengineering. A study published today in the journal Developmental ...

Scientists in Cambridge have created synthetic mouse embryos in a lab, without using eggs or sperm, which show evidence of a brain and beating heart. The mouse embryos, developed using stem cells, ...

Researchers have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart and the foundations of all the other organs of the body. The development could help researchers ...

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University of Bern researchers discovered that gene deserts, non-coding DNA regions, regulate heart and embryo development through enhancer elements controlling key genes. This insight into gene ...

Long before human bone marrow takes over the task of producing blood, discrete waves of blood cell production occur in the developing embryo. Miriana Dardano, a postdoctoral researcher in Zweigerdt’s ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common form of human birth defect, but we still don’t fully understand what causes them. Previous research had suggested that some heart defects could be ...