Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

After years of trial and error, scientists have finally done something incredible: They have successfully grown human stem cells in a pig embryo. Why would anyone do this? Turns out, many ...

Studying the early development of human embryos is challenging due to ethical constraints and technical difficulties.

A study reveals that guinea pigs can serve as a robust model for understanding human pre-implantation development. Their ...

A group led by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has taken the first big step toward making this a reality: today (January 26) in Cell, they report having grown the first ...

“We think that the developmental cues that exist in the pig will help to guide the human cells inside the porcine embryo. In the in vitro approach, there is a physical scaffold that exists, but the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified the guinea pig as a promising model for studying the early development of human embryos. A new ...

CRCHUM researcher Sophie Petropoulos and her team reveal for the first time that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of ...

The guinea pig has long been used for studies in developmental biology and is very similar to humans in terms of general ...

We also inhibited and activated signalling pathways to see how these genes could affect embryo development” she said. “When we compared the development of the guinea pig embryo to our previous ...