Which fertilized eggs will become healthy human fetuses? Researchers predict with 93% accuracy
Sunday, October 3, 2010 - 21:20
in Biology & Nature
Two-thirds of all human embryos fail to develop successfully. Now, in a new study, researchers have shown that they can predict with 93 percent certainty which fertilized eggs will make it to a critical developmental milestone and which will stall and die. The findings are important to the understanding of the fundamentals of human development at the earliest stages, which have largely remained a mystery despite the attention given to human embryonic stem cell research.