During early embryonic development in mammals, the totipotency of the zygote — which is reprogrammed from the differentiated gametes — transitions to pluripotency by the blastocyst stage, coincident ...
The quality of oocytes and early embryos is a key determinant of reproductive success. As the primary executors of all cellular functions, proteins orchestrate the molecular events underlying oocyte ...
Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...