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Posted by Kat Arney, on 12 January 2023
We’re going back to the womb to explore the genetics of how to make babies - from finding out how birthweight is linked to the risk of diabetes to investigating ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 7 October 2021
We explore the science behind one of the most remarkable but often overlooked organs in the mammalian body: the placenta.Posted by the Node, on 10 June 2019
Press release from Development. You can also read the Research Highlight for this article. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy has been linked to poor growth of the placenta, causing conditions such ...Posted by DMDD, on 20 July 2017
A new set of DMDD embryo and placenta data has been released, taking our total dataset to 9.5 million images of around 1300 embryos. DMDD is a primary screen of ...Posted by DMDD, on 1 December 2016
This post originally appeared on Annotations, the DMDD blog. New image and phenotype data for embryos and placentas from embryonic lethal knockout mouse lines has been made ...Posted by matsushi, on 18 November 2013
Endoreplication (endoreduplication or endomitosis) is the process by which a cell undergoes successive rounds of DNA replication without an intervening mitosis and its accompanying cytokinesis. Developmentally programmed endoreplication causes differentiating ...