Unlike other synthetic embryos, the Cambridge-developed mouse embryo models reached the point where the entire brain, including the anterior portion, began to develop. This is a further point in ...

By carefully guiding these three types of stem cell, researchers at the University of Cambridge (UK) grew a synthetic mouse embryo with a brain and beating heart, and the beginnings of a full set of ...

Lead author Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz said: "Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the components that go on to make up the body. It's just ...

Using only a mixture of stem cells, University of Cambridge researchers were able to generate a live, “synthetic” mouse embryo — complete with a brain and beating heart in what they deemed a ...

From a clump of embryonic stem cells ... blood circulation, folded brain tissue and intestinal tracts. The mouse embryos grew in an artificial womb and stopped developing after eight days ...

However, there's no equivalent for the developing mouse brain, which undergoes rapid changes in shape and volume during the embryonic and post-natal stages. "Without this 3D map of the developing ...

Using a new approach for studying live embryonic mouse brains at single-cell resolution ... which is the part of the brain that governs sensory perception, cognition, and other high-order functions.

Embryonic neurons transplanted into mice can induce a period of flexibility in a relatively rigid older brain, suggesting a possible mechanism to repair damaged brain circuits, according a study ...

"Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the components that go on to make up the body," said Zernicka-Goetz, Professor in Mammalian Development and Stem ...

“Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the components that go on to make up the body,” said Zernicka-Goetz, Professor in Mammalian Development and ...

‘Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the components that go on to make up the body. ‘It’s just unbelievable that we’ve got this far. ‘This has ...