Image shows a three dimensional reconstruction of a part of an embryo with cell nuclei in blue and the protein Oct4 in pink.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh's MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine have shed light on how the early embryo safeguards itself against tumour formation and uncontrolled differentiation.

On May 21st and 22nd 2012 CRM organised a symposium to honour Sir Ian Wilmut FRS and to mark the opening of the new Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine building.