The first few days of a human embryo’s development, known as pre-implantation, are important. It’s when the first cells are formed, and these decide if the embryo can survive, how it will implant in ...

The human guinea pig may soon be extinct. He (it’s usually a ‘he’) has become endangered through the advances of cell culture science, which increasingly close the gap between in vitro testing (the ...

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 ...