Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University In previous studies, p38-MAPK was identified as a regulator for blastocyst ICM fate in the mouse embryo. Today, scientists are trying to find out the functional role of the DDX21 protein. For the understanding of this complex pathway, let’s first deep dive into the embryo and its development stages. Fusion of […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati The body axis helps in the development of correct positioning of the anatomical structure in animals. The body axis patterning is based on concentration-dependent interpretation of graded morphogen signals like Wnt/β-catenin signaling.β-catenin signaling directs gastrulation and patterns the main body axis. In an embryo, the positioning of all anatomical structures is […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata In an attempt to investigate how the monkey embryos and human embryos function alongside, scientists discovered the world’s first monkey embryos containing human cells. Fascinating, right? The embryos were derived from a macaque and then injected with human stem cells in the lab, these were then allowed to grow […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Who soared the empty skies 360 million years ago? Not the Pterosaurs. Not the Birds. Definitely not the Bats. They were the Insects. They flew before anything else did. The origin of wings among these tiny arthropods was however an enigma, it bugged the Scientists for over a Century. There […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata The environment that an embryo encounters during its developing stage matters a lot because it has major consequences on the later-life of an individual. Telomeres are the protective ends of chromosomes and their length is indicative of the “biological age” of an individual. Telomeres have a tendency to shorten […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata In Greek mythology, chimeras were hybrid creatures; part lion, part goat, part snake. Now chimeras can be simply defined as animals made up of cells of two separate zygotes. Chimeric animals have more than one set of parents. Chimeras can be built in two ways; the first is to introduce […]
