{"id":168596,"date":"2023-07-29T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-first-step-to-life-hitting-reset-to-start-a-new-embryo"},"modified":"2023-07-29T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:33:34","slug":"the-first-step-to-life-hitting-reset-to-start-a-new-embryo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-first-step-to-life-hitting-reset-to-start-a-new-embryo","title":{"rendered":"The First Step to Life: Hitting Reset To Start a New Embryo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-step-to-life-hitting-reset-to-start-a-new-embryo2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent collaborative research conducted by scientists in the United States and China unveils the mechanism through which a fertilized egg cell, also known as a zygote, triggers a \u2018reset\u2019, enabling the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program. The study was recently published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been known for some time that the genome of a newly fertilized egg cell is inactive and has to be woken up, said Richard Schultz, research professor at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/uc-davis\/>University of California, Davis,<\/a> School of Veterinary Medicine and a corresponding author on the paper. This step is called zygote genome activation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the embryo to develop, the oocyte\/egg has to lose its identity and does so by making new stuff,\u201d Schultz said. \u201cWe now know the first steps in how this transition occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent collaborative research conducted by scientists in the United States and China unveils the mechanism through which a fertilized egg cell, also known as a zygote, triggers a \u2018reset\u2019, enabling the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program. The study was recently published in the journal Nature. It has been known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}