Tag: Zygote

  • Nation & World

    Genetic barcodes trace cells back to single-cell origin

    Harvard researchers have found that by using evolving genetic barcodes, the process of cell division in developing mice can be recorded, enabling the lineage of every cell to be traced back to its single-cell origin.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Expanding the brain

    New findings reveal how genomic imprinting can dramatically expand biological diversity, and could have important implications for understanding the brain.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Stem cell lessons

    Five years after first gaining institutional permission to attempt to produce stem cell lines via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), two Harvard researchers and a former Harvard postdoctoral fellow have closed the loop with a flurry of new studies and a commentary in several leading journals.

    4 minutes