Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Scientists show how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits 'reset' so that the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program. New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows ...

Early stage embryos created by IVF. New work reveals the key genes that cause the kickstart development of the embryo. (Getty Images). New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a ...

New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits ‘reset’ so that the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program. The study was ...

New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits "reset" so that the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program. The study was ...

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Researchers have found in an embryo that activation of its genome does not happen all at once. Instead, it follows a specific pattern controlled primarily by the various sizes of its cells.