Mouse Embryo Implantation Reproduced in Lab Equipment

   Osaka, July 10 (Jiji Press)--A team led by a professor at Osaka University's Bioinformatics Center has replicated the mouse embryo implantation process in laboratory equipment with a high success rate.
   Masahito Ikawa and his team on Wednesday said that they have developed a method of culturing fragments of uterine tissue from mice in laboratory containers to achieve embryo implantation.
   The team also discovered an interplay in a protein necessary for implantation.
   Its findings were published in the British scientific journal Nature Communications.
   "We hope to develop a method to improve implantation failure as much as possible in assisted reproductive technology for humans and a therapeutic drug" through the developed technique, Ikawa said.

(2025/07/10-20:10)