Code
01B04308
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Developmental genetics
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Medical and health sciences
- Endocrinology
- Foetal development
- Clinical genetics and molecular diagnostics
- Medical metabolomics
- Cell division
- Embryology
- Endocrinology
- Foetal development
- Clinical genetics and molecular diagnostics
- Medical genomics
- Cell growth and development
- Embryology
- Pediatric nursing
- Metabolic diseases
- Foetal development
- Clinical genetics and molecular diagnostics
- Membrane structure and transport
- Embryology
Keywords
embryonic stem cells
oocyte activation
Project description
The Biostation combines in microscope, an incubator and a camera in one compact body allowing sophisticated time-lapse imaging of cell and embryo cultures. The system will be applied for human embryonic stem cell research to study the transition of blastocyst to stem cell outgrowth in order to identify and characterize intermedian cell structures that may arise. Additionally it can be used to study the oocyte activation mechanism and further embryo development.