Newly discovered gene critical to embryo’s first days
A previously unknown gene plays a critical part in the development of the human embryo during the first days of fertilisation, researchers from Karolinska Institutet show. The paper, which is published in the scientific journal Development, describes the molecular mechanisms governing early embryonic development and can help in the understanding of what causes certain kinds of infertility.In 2015, scientists at Karolinska Institutet discovered that a number of previously unknown genes are active in the embryo during the first days of fertilisation of the egg by the sperm. In the present