This self-protective mechanism allows some species of animals, including mammals, to arrest or delay the development of ...

The cells that reside in the inner cell mass of the early embryo, called the blastocyst, are pluripotent, and can develop into all cell types in the body. During embryonic development, the pluripotent ...

But without OCT4 the blastocyst cannot form ... which is providing us with a foundation of knowledge about early human development." By deepening understanding of the earliest moments in life ...

This mechanism to temporarily slow development, called embryonic diapause, often happens at the blastocyst stage, just before ...